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Add Windows Registry on Windows-like systems — Ansible module win_regedit

How to automate the creation of the Windows Registry key “name” and “value” under a specified “path” on Windows-like systems with Ansible Playbook using win_regedit module.

Luca Berton
5 min readMar 17, 2022

How to Add Windows Registry key-value on Windows-like systems with Ansible?

Changing registry values manually can be time-consuming and error-prone.

Ansible includes built-in capabilities for managing individual key-value pairs in an idempotent way.

I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot

Ansible adds Windows Registry on Windows-like systems

  • `ansible.windows.win_regedit`
  • Get information about Windows registry keys

Let’s talk about the Ansible module `win_regedit`.

The full name is `ansible.windows.win_regedit`, which means that is part of the…

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Luca Berton
Luca Berton

Written by Luca Berton

I help creative Automation DevOps, Cloud Engineer, System Administrator, and IT Professional to succeed with Ansible Technology to automate more things everyday

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