diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fc69b37292..4265b95ecd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ hvac>=0.10.1 # Apache-2.0
 # templating
 Jinja2>=3 # BSD License (3 clause)
 
-# Ansible's json_query
+# Ansible and ansible's json_query
+ansible-core>=2.16,<2.18 # GPLv3
 jmespath>=0.9.3 # MIT
 
 # ini parsing
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index c16a764619..303f3d5b1e 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@ coverage!=4.4,>=4.0 # Apache-2.0
 docker>=2.4.2 # Apache-2.0
 oslotest>=3.2.0 # Apache-2.0
 stestr>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0
-ansible>=6,<8 # GPLv3