# slim vs fat ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/slim-vs-fat-ansible/37897>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 18, 2023, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/slim-vs-fat-ansible/37897 "2023-04-18T08:55:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/slim-vs-fat-ansible/37897/1 "2023-04-18T08:55:14Z")

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Hii

We use ansible in a few dozen separate virtualenvs, which causes quite a lot of disk space to be used because of the large number of included collections.  
Rather than starting another discussion about that, I wanted to share a shell helper that installs a slimmed down ansible version:

[https://github.com/GEANT/scripts](https://github.com/GEANT/scripts)

In our use case it saved about 10GB.  
Hope it may be helpful for others.

thx!

Dick