# ansible-ee vs ansible-builder on production

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-ee-vs-ansible-builder-on-production/37151>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx, ee, galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [September 28, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-ee-vs-ansible-builder-on-production/37151 "2022-09-28T08:18:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vladyslav\_Utkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a8b319/32.png) [@Vladyslav\_Utkin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vladyslav_Utkin)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-ee-vs-ansible-builder-on-production/37151/1 "2022-09-28T08:18:02Z")

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Hi. I want to use ee on AWX environment and found out that ansible-ee depends on ansible-builder. What should I use? I can enrich ansible-ee with additional galaxy packages for example or use ansible-builder to add these packages. What the difference between these two approaches?

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**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-ee-vs-ansible-builder-on-production/37151/2 "2022-09-28T19:02:56Z")

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Hi!

The recommended way to build your custom EEs is to use the ansible-builder tool.

[https://www.ansible.com/blog/introduction-to-ansible-builder](https://www.ansible.com/blog/introduction-to-ansible-builder)  
[https://ansible-builder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/](https://ansible-builder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)

builder will use

EE\_BASE\_IMAGE: ‘[quay.io/ansible/ansible-runner:latest](http://quay.io/ansible/ansible-runner:latest)’

as the base image

Let us know if you have more questions around this

AWX Team