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Preferred terminology

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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.