Make 2.17 the min Ansible version

Author: SirGitsalot

.github/workflows/ansible-integration-tests.yml

@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ jobs:
         # and test against the minimum version of Python supported by both. If/when we change
         # the integration tests to support parallelism we can revisit.
         ansible_version:
-          - stable-2.16
           - stable-2.17
+          - stable-2.18
     steps:
       - name: check out code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: '3.10'  # this is the minimum version required for Ansible 2.16
+          python-version: '3.11'  # this is the minimum version required for Ansible 2.17
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: pip install -r requirements.txt
       - name: Install ansible-base (${{ matrix.ansible_version }})

.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml

@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ jobs:
         # of ansible-core and each major version of Python supported by both.
         # https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-core-support-matrix
         ansible_version:
-          - stable-2.16
           - stable-2.17
+          - stable-2.18
         python_version:
-          - '3.10'
           - '3.11'
           - '3.12'
+          - '3.13'
     steps:
       - name: check out code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         ansible_version:
-          - stable-2.16
           - stable-2.17
+          - stable-2.18
         python_version:
-          - '3.10'
           - '3.11'
           - '3.12'
+          - '3.13'
     steps:
       - name: check out code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4

meta/runtime.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-requires_ansible: ">=2.16.0"
+requires_ansible: ">=2.17.0"
 
 action_groups:
   gcp: