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Add comments about looming EOL issues for ansible and ansible-core
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This adds even more evidence for why it is a good idea to go ahead and
upgrade ansible and ansible-core, in addition to the vulnerability
that pip-audit turned up.

Co-authored-by: Nick M <[email protected]>
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jsf9k and mcdonnnj committed Nov 20, 2024
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# identifies a vulnerability in ansible-core 2.16.13, but all versions
# of ansible 9 have a dependency on ~=2.16.X.
#
# It is also a good idea to go ahead and upgrade to version 10 since
# version 9 is going EOL at the end of November:
# https://endoflife.date/ansible
#
# We have tested against version 10. We want to avoid automatically
# jumping to another major version without testing, since there are
# often breaking changes across major versions. This is the reason
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# accordingly (>2.16.13), but the above pin of ansible>=10 effectively
# pins ansible-core to >=2.17 so that's what we do here.
#
# It is also a good idea to go ahead and upgrade to ansible-core 2.17
# since security support for ansible-core 2.16 ends this month:
# https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-core-support-matrix
#
# Note that any changes made to this dependency must also be made in
# requirements.txt in cisagov/skeleton-packer and
# .pre-commit-config.yaml in cisagov/skeleton-generic.
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