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Blog posts April 2025

GitHub Actions for executing remote SSH commands on Microsoft Windows

The provided code snippets demonstrate a robust CI/CD pipeline for deploying notepad++ using Ansible and GitHub Actions. This setup enables automated deployment of software applications on a Windows virtual machine (VM).

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Ansible Playbook: The playbook defines tasks for deploying N…

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Configuring Ansible to Manage Windows Servers via OpenSSH

In this article, we will explore how to configure Ansible to manage Windows servers using OpenSSH. This approach is particularly useful when WinRM is blocked or not feasible due to organizational policies.
Prerequisites

  • OpenSSH server installed and configured on the Windows machine
  • Ansible …

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Key based passwordless authentication to Microsoft Windows OpenSSH Server

This is a second part of  OpenSSH Server configuration for Windows. In this part I am generating private and public keys, which will be used to login into Windows OpenSSH server. When using key based authentication on OpenSSH, you don't need to provide a password to connect Windows Server over Ope…

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OpenSSH Server configuration for Windows

I had a requirement to test configuring OpenSSH server on Microsoft Windows and connect it through OpenSSH client. Using given below steps in this article we can setup OpenSSH server on Windows server and connect through Linux SSH client.

First go to Settings >> Apps & features >> Optional featu…

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