vagrant I recently wanted to test Ansible playbooks locally, but since I am on a Windows environment, this proved a little difficult. It is possible to install Ansible in WSL, but I found that this did not quite fit my need, since I wanted a control node where I can tweak and run the Ansible scripts from, but also needed some target machines to apply the changes to. This gave me the idea to use another tool I am very fond of, Vagrant, to create several Linux machines to create my Ansible development environment.

This is an excerpt from a blog posted on the IBM Community site. Read the full post here.