Preferred terminology

The following is the list of preferred terms for Ansible ecosystem projects.

Ansible

Use on all occurrences or ansible if referring to the CLI command. Preference is to use this to refer to the Ansible community package.

Ansible Builder

Use on first occurrence or ansible-builder if referring to the CLI command. Subsequent occurrences can be Builder.

Ansible collection

Use on first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be collection.

Ansible Content Development Kit (CDK)

Use on first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be Ansible CDK.

Ansible Core

Use on all occurrences, though preference is ansible-core after first occurrence to distinguish from the Ansible community package.

Ansible Creator

Use on first occurrence or ansible-creator if referring to the CLI command.

Ansible Execution Environment (EE)

Use on first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be Execution Environment or EE.

Ansible Galaxy

Use on first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be Galaxy. Do not use Galaxy NG.

Ansible Lint

Use on all occurrences or ansible-lint if referring to the CLI command.

Ansible Molecule

Use on first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be Molecule or molecule if referring to the CLI command.

Ansible Navigator

Use first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be Navigator or ansible-navigator if referring to the CLI.

Ansible playbook

Use on first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be playbook.

ansible-pylibssh

Use on all occurrences.

Ansible role

Use on first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be role.

Ansible rule

Use on first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be rule.

Ansible rulebook

Use on first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be rulebook.

Ansible Runner

Use on first occurrence or ansible-runner if referring to the CLI command. Subsequent occurrences can be Runner.

Ansible SDK

Use on all occurrences.

Ansible Sign

Use on all occurrences or ansible-sign if referring to the CLI command.

ansible-test

Use on all occurrences as the CLI command.

Ansible VSCode Extension by Red Hat

Use on first occurrence. Subsequent occurrences can be Ansible VSCode Extension.

Pinakes

Use on all occurrences.

Receptor

Use on all occurrences or receptor if referring to the CLI command.