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Running PowerShell 7 Commands Directly on Ansible Localhost

In a previous post I have written about Running PowerShell Core Commands Directly on Ansible Localhost using the version of PowerShell Core available at that time 6.2.3. With the recent release of PowerShell 7 I will demonstrate how to achieve the same outcome with this newer version and also an example taking advantage of one of the new features. My awx_task container is based on Centos 8 and installation for PowerShell 7 is the same process as for 6.

PowerShell 7 New Feature: ForEach-Object -Parallel

Prior to PowerShell version 7 there were a number of different methods for running PowerShell tasks in parallel, for example creating your own runspaces manually or using a third-party module such as Invoke-Parallel or PoshRSJob to make that a little more straightforward. Not to be confused of course with the foreach -parallel language construct, which exists, but is only available via a Windows PowerShell workflow. For an excellent summary of the different options prior to v7, I would highly recommend checking out Richard Siddaway’s talk from PSDayUK 2019 which provides some great insight.