Background:

Now the version of ansible-core being used in the CI test is limited to <2.17,
https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/blob/master/images/installer/Dockerfile#L41

because of a known deprecation of ansible-core-2.17 with python-3.6(https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/newer-versions-ansible-dont-work-rhel-8),
since python-3.6 is the default python version of RHEL-8 workers, ansible-core >= 2.17 doesn't work with python-3.6 anymore.

User Story:

As a (user persona), I want to be able to:

• Remove the limitation of ansible-core after dropping RHEL-8 worker support

so that I can achieve

• To test the latest ansible-core in the CI

Acceptance Criteria:

Description of criteria:

• Upstream documentation
• Point 1
• Point 2
• Point 3

(optional) Out of Scope:

Detail about what is specifically not being delivered in the story

Engineering Details:

Test latest ansible-core-2.17 with RHEL-9 workers was done in https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/pull/12509 

This requires/does not require a design proposal.
This requires/does not require a feature gate.