Merge pull request #173 from cisagov/improvement/use-recent-version-of-ansible

Allow ansible versions greater than 6

Author: mcdonnnj

requirements-test.txt

@@ -6,8 +6,14 @@
 # 2.10 or newer.
 #
 # We need at least version 6 to correctly identify Amazon Linux 2023
-# as using the dnf package manager.
-ansible>=6,<7
+# as using the dnf package manager, and version 8 is currently the
+# oldest supported version.
+#
+# We have tested against version 9.  We want to avoid automatically
+# jumping to another major version without testing, since there are
+# often breaking changes across major versions.  This is the reason
+# for the upper bound.
+ansible>=8,<10
 # With the release of molecule v5 there were some breaking changes so
 # we need to pin at v5 or newer. However, v5.0.0 had an internal
 # dependency issue so we must use the bugfix release as the actual