diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 6b05f31d13..ffecf1190a 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ deps =
      # Unfortunately pip doesn't do actual dependency resolution, so
      # we need to manually ansible at the top level to the same as
      # zuul requirements.txt
-     ansible>=2.5.1,<2.6
+     ansible>=2.7.0,<2.8
      ansible-lint<4
      hacking>=1.1,<1.2
      bashate>=0.2