diff --git a/ansible-requirements.txt b/ansible-requirements.txt
index b18ac42..f5398ac 100644
--- a/ansible-requirements.txt
+++ b/ansible-requirements.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # to licensing conflicts. But we sill need to be able to pull them in for
 # lint checks and want to document these as ansible specific things that may
 # be required for this repository.
-ansible>=2.8,<2.10
+ansible-core<2.12
 ansible-lint
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 68972eb..d155c5c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 pbr>=1.6
-ansible>=2.8,<2.10
+ansible-core<2.12
diff --git a/zuul.d/playbooks/pre.yml b/zuul.d/playbooks/pre.yml
index f54bc1c..89e11ec 100644
--- a/zuul.d/playbooks/pre.yml
+++ b/zuul.d/playbooks/pre.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
       register: pub_key
 
     - name: Ensure can ssh to can connect to localhost
-      authorized_key:
+      ansible.posix.authorized_key:
         user: "{{ ansible_user }}"
         key: "{{ pub_key['content'] | b64decode }}"