# Ansible Engine - What is it EXACTLY? **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Tags:** redhat, ansible-core\ **Created:** [September 19, 2023, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-engine-what-is-it-exactly/912 "2023-09-19T05:21:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![bcoca](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/bcoca/32/9269_2.png) [@bcoca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bcoca)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-engine-what-is-it-exactly/912/10 "2023-09-27T12:13:12Z")
The massive overload of the term Ansible is something we regret in core, but are powerless to fix. As Ansible (community distribution) is installed via ansible (the pypi pakcage) but depends on ansible (CLI part of core) which lives at ansible (repo `github.com/ansible/ansible`) but it is confused with ansible (AAP … all 27? components) specially by people that don’t even know the CLI exists. So I always have to ask people to be specific. /me goes to corner to cry --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-engine-what-is-it-exactly/912)._