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