Installing on Windows 10 Professional

The last platform we are going to cover is Windows 10 Professional; well, sort of. There is no supported way of running an Ansible controller on a Windows machine natively. Because of this, we will be using the Windows subsystem for Linux.

This is a feature, which, at the time of writing, is in beta, and is only available to Windows 10 Professional users. To enable it, you first need to enable developer mode. To do this, open the Windows 10 Settings app and then toggle Developer mode, which can be found under UPDATE & SECURITY, and then For Developers.

Once Developer mode has been enabled, you will be able to enable the shell. To do this, open Control Panel, then click on Programs and Features, and then ...

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