Ansible Packages
Learn how Ansible is packaged and what some of the advantages of the ansible and ansible-core packages are.
Ansible releases are packaged and distributed in two packages: ansible-core
and ansible
.
The ansible-core
package contains the minimum of the Ansible platform.
It includes all the command-line tools, the main components, and the ansible.builtin
collection. The ansible
community package includes ansible-core
plus some additional collections.
Installing an Ansible package
You can choose any of the following ways to install the Ansible community package:
- Install the latest release with our OS package manager for certain Linux distributions.
- Install with
pip
(the Python package manager).
Ansible core
Ansible core is a command-line tool primarily for developers and users who want to install only the necessary collections.
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