diff --git a/.github/workflows/ansible-integration-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/ansible-integration-tests.yml
index 7080060a..dc96f6fd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-integration-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-integration-tests.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ jobs:
         # and test against the minimum version of Python supported by both. If/when we change
         # the integration tests to support parallelism we can revisit.
         ansible_version:
+          - stable-2.16
           - stable-2.17
           - stable-2.18
           - stable-2.19
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/connection_plugin/runme.sh b/tests/integration/targets/connection_plugin/runme.sh
index 678cb6a6..c6f9b553 100755
--- a/tests/integration/targets/connection_plugin/runme.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/connection_plugin/runme.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 set -eux
 
+# prereq
+ansible-galaxy collection install community.crypto
+
 # test infra
 ansible-playbook playbooks/setup.yml "$@"