Ansible terminology — ansible vs ansible-core packages

What is ansible-core? What is the ansible community package? What happened to the Ansible project after version 2.9? An overview of the ansible community and ansible-core packages and use-cases nowadays.

What is ansible-core? What is the ansible community package?

What happened to the Ansible project after version 2.9?

Today we’re going to talk about ansible community and ansible-core packages released since 2021.

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

ansible vs ansible-core

ansible community

• Uses new versioning (2.10, then 3.0.0)
• Follows semantic versioning rules
• Does not use semantic versioning
• Maintains only one version at a time
• Includes language, runtime, and selected Collections
• Developed and maintained in Collection repositories

ansible-core (was…