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.