ansible-role-posh5

This role will update PowerShell/Windows Management Framework to Version 5.1, enure that .Net applications use Strong TLS, configure NuGet, PowerShell Gallery, PowerShellGet and install the PSReadline Module.

All of this ensures that PowerShell functions like it does on modern Windows Systems. This ensures you can use Install-Module and by extend win_psmodule to install PowerShell modules or DSCs on older versions of Windows without any additional manual configuration.

Works on

• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012R2
• Windows Server 2012

Not validated (yet) on

• Windows Server 2008R2
• Windows Server 2008 x64
• Windows Server 2008 x32

Requirements

N/A

Role Variables

N/A

Dependencies

N/A

Example Playbook

- hosts: posh5
  roles:
     - { role: justin_p.posh5 }

Local Development

This role includes a Vagrantfile that will spin up a local Windows Server 2019 VM in Virtualbox. After creating the VM it will automatically run our role.

Development requirements

pip3 install pywinrm

Usage

• Run vagrant up to create a VM and run our playbook
• Run vagrant provision to reapply our playbook
• Run vagrant destroy -f && vagrant up to recreate the VM and run our playbook.
• Run vagrant destroy to remove the VM.

License

MIT

Authors

• Justin Perdok (@justin-p), Orange Cyberdefense

Contributing

Feel free to open issues, contribute and submit your Pull Requests. You can also ping me on Twitter (@JustinPerdok).