Introduction Ansible is one of the most popular configuration management tools. I’ve written about Ansible Testing previously. Ansible consists of a number of modules that provide atomic operations such as installing a package or creating an AWS EC2 virtual machine. These modules are basically Python programs that adhere to an Ansible protocol. On Windows, modules are instead written in PowerShell. The presence of the PowerShell interpreter is one prerequisite for Ansible provisioning on Windows machines.

This article describes the configuration management tool Ansible and some of its basic concepts. Then it discusses how to test Ansible code. Refer to the version chart below. It assumes familiarity with the concept of configuration management, programming, and testing.