diff --git a/.ansible-lint b/.ansible-lint
index edfd9da..5d88ddf 100644
--- a/.ansible-lint
+++ b/.ansible-lint
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ skip_list:  # or 'skip_list' to silence them completely
   - package-latest  # Package installs should not use latest
   - role-name  # Role name {0} does not match ``^[a-z][a-z0-9_]+$`` pattern
 
+exclude_paths:
+  - zuul.d/
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