Running ansible playbook on wsl Ubuntu

 Run the following commands from your home directory:

sudo apt install python3-venv
 
source venv/bin/activate

Your prompt will change:

(.venv) user@wsl_host:~/dev/ansible$

Install ansible:

pip install ansible

Example 1

Copy Hello World file to all hosts.

Create an inventory file (inventory.yml):

all:
  vars:
    ansible_user: user
  hosts:
    wsl_host:
      ansible_host: localhost
    ubuntu_laptop:
      ansible_host: 192.168.xxx.xxx

Create a playbook (playbook.yml):

- name: Play 1
  hosts: all
  tasks:

    - name: Create Hello World file
      ansible.builtin.copy:
        content: "Hello World"
        dest: /home/user/hello-world.txt
 

Run the playbook:

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml playbook.yml --ask-pass

You will be prompted to enter the appropriate password(s). This will create hello-world.txt file on the two host that you defined in the inventory.yml file.

See First Ansible Playbook for more details.

Example 2

Fetch file from Linux host on wsl2 host using ansible fetch.

Create remote linux host ini file (host.ini):

[remote_linux_servers]
192.168.xxx.xxx  ansible_user=user

Create fetch playbook (fetch_playbook.yml):

- name: Fetch data.json file from Linux to WSL2
  hosts: remote_linux_servers
  tasks:
    - name: Download the remote file
      ansible.builtin.fetch:
        src: /home/user/data.json
        dest: ~/dev/ansible

Run the playbook:

ansible-playbook -i host.ini fetch_playbook.yml --ask-pass

You will be prompted to enter the appropriate password. This will fetch data.json file and save it to wsl2 ubuntu.