A new pywinrm release that supports NTLM, kerberos delegation, and much improved performance is just around the corner! Version 0.2.0 is at release candidate, and a test build has been published to testpypi. Just waiting for any final testing/review from Alexey before the final publish of the release build to PyPI.
Feel like giving it a whirl? pip install pywinrm[kerberos]==0.2rc3 -i https://testpypi.python.org/pypi --extra-index-url https://pypi.python.org/pypi will get you the RC3 test build from testpypi (along with the released dependencies from the real pypi), and the optional kerberos dependencies. If you don't want kerberos, just get rid of the [kerberos] extras part in the pkgspec above. This pywinrm build has been tested with Ansible 1.9.5, 2.0.2 and 2.1RC1. Once you have it installed, ansible_winrm_transport=ntlm in your inventory for Windows hosts (sorry, this one only works for Ansible 2.0+) lets you use domain users with both domain\username and usern...@domain.com syntax. When using ansible_winrm_transport=kerberos, kerberos delegation support can be enabled just by adding ansible_winrm_kerberos_delegation=yes. We've added a few new niceties around arg parsing in Ansible 2.1, like warnings if you pass inventory args that your installed version of pywinrm doesn't understand (and not requiring things like username when not required) but otherwise, most of the goodies in here should work on older versions of Ansible too. This release of pywinrm has switched the HTTP(S) client from urllib2 to requests, allowing us to take advantage of persistent connections, which give another significant performance boost to Windows on Ansible (especially over HTTPS, as we don't have to repeat the TLS handshake for each WinRM request). In my testing, local VMs experienced about a 20% speed boost on small tasks, while remote VMs (eg, AWS instances) got more like a 50% speed boost to small tasks (due to the higher latency cost during connection setup). File transfer performance (eg, win_copy) should also be noticeably improved again with this release, though I haven't benchmarked it. Feel free to file issues at https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/issues. Enjoy! Matt Davis Principal Software Engineer (Ansible Core Windows) Red Hat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/d3826326-8289-4683-9ee4-6b92e6c4c297%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
