diff --git a/ansible-requirements.txt b/ansible-requirements.txt
index a1b6838..b18ac42 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
+ansible>=2.8,<2.10
 ansible-lint
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 885c2cb..68972eb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 pbr>=1.6
-ansible
+ansible>=2.8,<2.10
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 8710760..42e1564 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-hacking!=0.13.0,<0.14,>=0.12.0 # Apache-2.0
+hacking>=4.0.0,<4.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 pyflakes>=2.2.0