revert install method for ansible

Author: s1-nathangerhart

.github/actions/ci-setup/action.yml

@@ -17,15 +17,14 @@ runs:
       with:
         python-version: ${{ inputs.python-version }}
 
-    # - name: Install ansible-core (${{ inputs.ansible-version }})
-    #   shell: bash
-    #   run: |
-    #     pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/${{ inputs.ansible-version }}.tar.gz --disable-pip-version-check
+    - name: Install ansible-core (${{ inputs.ansible-version }})
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/${{ inputs.ansible-version }}.tar.gz --disable-pip-version-check
 
     - name: Install requirements for molecule tests
       shell: bash
       run: |
         pip uninstall molecule-vagrant --yes
-        pip install ansible-core==${{ inputs.ansible-version }}
         pip install ansible-dev-tools pywinrm molecule molecule-plugins ansible-lint flake8 --disable-pip-version-check
         if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt --disable-pip-version-check; fi

.github/workflows/ci-test.yml

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ jobs:
           #   python: '3.10'
           # - ansible: stable-2.14 # EOL 2024-05-20
           #   python: '3.10'
-          - ansible: "2.16.8"
+          - ansible: stable-2.16 # EOL 2025-05 - last version to support Python <3.7
             python: "3.12"
     env:
       ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR: 1 # allows ansible colors to be passed to GitHub Actions