# Ansible Community, Ansible Core and RHEL 8

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-ansible-core-and-rhel-8/11198>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** rhel, ansible-core, howto\
**Created:** [November 28, 2024, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-ansible-core-and-rhel-8/11198 "2024-11-28T06:47:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![cam-mclaren](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/cam-mclaren/32/5575_2.png) [@cam-mclaren](https://forum.ansible.com/u/cam-mclaren)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-ansible-core-and-rhel-8/11198/1 "2024-11-28T06:47:43Z")

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Hi,

My team maintains RHEL 8 based servers using Ansible. From reading the ansible-core documentation this means [we must use ansible-core\<2.17](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83357#issuecomment-2148280535). This is fine as ansible-core 2.16 is being treated as an LTS for RHEL 8.

My question is, will ansible community 9.x continue to be updated to use the latest version of ansible-core for the duration of RHEL-8s support? According to the life cycle of the project it [will not be updated past 9.13](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-community-changelogs)

Would you have any advice for teams using packages outside ansible-core on RHEL 8?

Best Regards  
Cam

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**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-community-ansible-core-and-rhel-8/11198/2 "2024-11-28T19:25:44Z")

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> [@cam-mclaren](#):
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> My question is, will ansible community 9.x continue to be updated to use the latest version of ansible-core for the duration of RHEL-8s support? According to the life cycle of the project it [will not be updated past 9.13](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-community-changelogs)

There has been no proposal to extend the Ansible community package 9.x lifecycle, so it will be End of Life after the final release next week.

> Would you have any advice for teams using packages outside ansible-core on RHEL 8?

I would simply install the collections you need directly next to `ansible-core`, instead of using the `ansible` package. Or build your own execution environment and use that.