[Enabler] Update sanity tests workflow to use Ansible 2.18 (#2059)

* testing version change sanity

* testing for sanity on 2.18

* testing sanity changes

* changelog and changes

* review comments incorporation

Author: Rohitcodes28

.github/workflows/ac-ansible-test-sanity.yml

@@ -51,23 +51,23 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: 3.11
+        python-version: 3.12
 
     - name: Set up venv
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install virtualenv
         mkdir venv
-        virtualenv venv/venv-2.16
+        virtualenv venv/venv-2.18
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
-        source venv/venv-2.16/bin/activate
+        source venv/venv-2.18/bin/activate
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install ansible-core==2.17.6
+        pip install "ansible-core>=2.18,<2.19"
 
     - name: Run ac-sanity
       run: |
-        source venv/venv-2.16/bin/activate
+        source venv/venv-2.18/bin/activate
         ./ac --ac-build
         ./ac --ac-sanity

changelogs/fragments/2059-Github-sanity-2-18-fix.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+trivial:
+  - ac-ansible-test-sanity.yml - Updated the ansible version to 2.18,
+    venv to 2.18, python to 3.12.
+    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ibm_zos_core/pull/2059).