docs: older version of Ansible needed for RHEL 8 #4124
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Update our Ansible documentation to note that newer versions of Ansible are not compatible with RHEL 8 and provide the last known back-level compatible versions of
ansibleandansible-corethat work.With the latest Ansible, I was getting this error when running against our RHEL 8 hosts:
python3-dnfis required for Ansible, but on RHEL 8 is only provided for the system python (/usr/libexec/platform-python, Python 3.6). Attempting to set the Python interpreter to the system Python (as opposed to 3.12) fails, and this appears to be known/deliberate:Refs: https://forum.ansible.com/t/almalinux-and-python3-dnf/44262/4
Refs: https://forum.ansible.com/t/python-3-7-impact-on-el8-future-for-el9/6229/13