Some weeks ago, I gave a workshop about Ansible and I was asked how to set up a local test environment for Ansible. Requirement is that this test environment can run on a Windows 10 without a Linux subsystem. I don't why, but it was not my first customer where Windows 10 could not be used with Linux subsystem (Don't …

On my last conference talk (it was about Ansible and Docker at DevOpsCon in Berlin), I was asked what is the best way to run Ansible on a Windows system. Ansible itself requires a Linux-based system as the control machine. When I have to develop on a Windows machine, I install a Linux-based virtual machine to run the …

I use Vagrant together with VirtualBox on an Ubuntu based Linux system. Because my internal SSD drive isn't so large, I outsource the location of VirtualBox's VMs to an external HDD drive with a NTFS partition. Additionally, I set Vagrant's environment variables VAGRANT_DOTFILE_PATH and VAGRANT_HOME so, that the …