# Release Announcement : Ansible Community Execution Environment Base and Minimal 2.17.4-1

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-execution-environment-base-and-minimal-2-17-4-1/8459>\
**Category:** Ecosystem Releases\
**Tags:** windows, fedora, playbook, community-wg, collections, ansible-core, ee\
**Created:** [September 12, 2024, 8:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-execution-environment-base-and-minimal-2-17-4-1/8459 "2024-09-12T08:54:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 8:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-ansible-community-execution-environment-base-and-minimal-2-17-4-1/8459/1 "2024-09-12T08:54:57Z")

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Hello everyone,

We’re happy to announce the release of the

Ansible Community [Execution Environment Base 2.17.4-1](https://github.com/ansible-community/images/pkgs/container/community-ee-base/272231844?tag=2.17.4-1)and Ansible Community Execution [Environment Minimal 2.17.4-1](https://github.com/ansible-community/images/pkgs/container/community-ee-minimal/272233976?tag=2.17.4-1)!

## What’s inside community-ee-base ?

Ansible community-ee-base is a container image. It includes:

- `base_image`: fedora 40

- `ansible-core`: 2.17.4

- `collections`: The following set of collections

## sha256 sum value of the container image:

066a84f11423ec79154a2f1987b1e39cf47c2cbafbd5e0f2ec31309b27facf11

## How to get community-ee-base?

### Install from command line via @sha256\_sum\_value of the image

`podman pull http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base@sha256:066a84f11423ec79154a2f1987b1e39cf47c2cbafbd5e0f2ec31309b27facf11`

### Install from command line via image tag

`podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base:latest`  
`podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base:2.17.4-1`

## What’s inside community-ee-minimal?

- `base_image`: fedora-minimal

- `ansible-core`: ansible-core 2.17.4

## sha256 sum value of the container image:

fcb06abf838654be247b85a9bb0ba4c464a7f8515fdb736489764c10b5971e21

## How to get community-ee-minimal?

### Install from command line via @sha256\_sum\_value of the image

`podman pull http://ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal@sha256:fcb06abf838654be247b85a9bb0ba4c464a7f8515fdb736489764c10b5971e21`

### Install from command line via image tag

`podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal:latest`  
`podman pull ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-minimal:2.17.4-1`

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On behalf of the Ansible community, thank you and happy automating!

Cheers,  
Ansible Release Management Working Group