[FEATURE REQUEST] Upgrade Ansible to the latest version in V2.0.x

[seriva]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The current version of Ansible has a bunch of security issues:

• CVE-2022-3697 High severity
• CVE-2022-3697 High severity
• CVE-2023-5115 Moderate severity
• CVE-2023-5115 Moderate severity

Describe the solution you'd like
Upgrade Ansible to the latest version.

Describe alternatives you've considered
None

Additional context
None

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DoD checklist

• Changelog
  • updated
  • not needed
• COMPONENTS.md
  • updated
  • not needed
• Schema
  • updated
  • not needed
• Backport tasks
  • created
  • not needed
• Documentation
  • added
  • updated
  • not needed
• Feature has automated tests
• Automated tests passed (QA pipelines)
  • apply
  • upgrade
  • backup/restore
• Idempotency tested
• All conversations in PR resolved
• Solution meets requirements and is done according to design doc
• Usage compliant with license

[seriva]

Should be Ansible 10.3.0 as its supported to EOL of Epiphany. Branch with update can be found here: https://github.com/seriva/epiphany/tree/ansible-upgrade

[tomasz-baran]

ansible-core 2.17 (ansible 10.x) is incompatible with RHEL 8 (due to Python 3.6 dnf bindings).

We have the following options:

1. Upgrade to Ansible 9 instead of 10 (ansible-core 2.16 works with Python 3.6)
2. Use unofficial packages to provide dnf bindings for Python 3.11 - they were created by a RedHat employee but hard to say if they will be updated and continuously available.
   • https://github.com/ktdreyer/python-311-copr
   • https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ktdreyer/python3.11/packages/
3. Release two versions of Epiphany: for Ubuntu with Ansible 10, for RHEL with Ansible 9
4. Upgrade RHEL from 8 to 9

More info here:
ansible/ansible#83357 (comment)
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/newer-versions-ansible-dont-work-rhel-8

We decided to choose option 1.

[seriva]

Option 1 will fix all open CV issues and while the main Ansible package is EOL from November 2024, ansible-core will be supported till EOL Epiphany in May 2025

[seriva]

Fixed with #3469