diff --git a/ansible/requirements.txt b/ansible/requirements.txt
index f3638bf419..501495a4fc 100644
--- a/ansible/requirements.txt
+++ b/ansible/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # TODO: unpin if RHEL 8 VMs on GCP update their python interpreter to 3.7+
 # https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.17.0/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.17.rst#removed-features-previously-deprecated
-ansible<10
+ansible-core==2.16.10
+ansible==9.7.0
 # TODO: unpin after https://github.com/docker/docker-py gets a release with
 # https://github.com/docker/docker-py/commit/7785ad913ddf2d86478f08278bb2c488d05a29ff
 requests==2.31.0
diff --git a/ansible/requirements.yml b/ansible/requirements.yml
index fa0019632b..7b66dbba89 100644
--- a/ansible/requirements.yml
+++ b/ansible/requirements.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ---
 collections:
+- google.cloud
 - community.general
 - community.docker
 - containers.podman