Bump min Ansible version to 2.16

.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Run tests for the cloud.google collection
 on: [pull_request]
-env:
-  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.9" # minimum version for Ansible 2.15
 jobs:
   sanity-and-lint:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -11,9 +9,16 @@ jobs:
         working-directory: ansible_collections/google/cloud
     strategy:
       matrix:
+        # Our version strategy is to test against the current and previous version
+        # of ansible-core and each major version of Python supported by both.
+        # https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-core-support-matrix
         ansible_version:
-          - stable-2.14
-          - stable-2.15
+          - stable-2.16
+          - stable-2.17
+        python_version:
+          - '3.10'
+          - '3.11'
+          - '3.12'
     steps:
       - name: check out code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -23,25 +28,14 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-      # Automation-hub requires python2.7 sanity tests
-      - name: setup python2.7
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-add-repository universe
-          sudo apt update
-          sudo apt install python2.7
-          curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
-          sudo /usr/bin/python2.7 get-pip.py
-          pip2 install virtualenv
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python_version }}
       - name: Install ansible-base (${{ matrix.ansible_version }})
         run: pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/${{ matrix.ansible_version }}.tar.gz --disable-pip-version-check
       - name: Run ansible-test sanity
         # validate-modules cannot be turned on until #498 is resolved.
         run: ansible-test sanity -v --color --skip validate-modules
-      - name: Install ansible-lint
-        run: pip install ansible-lint==6.22.0
       - name: Run ansible-lint
-        run: ansible-lint
+        uses: ansible/ansible-lint@v24.7.0
   unit:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     defaults:
@@ -50,8 +44,12 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         ansible_version:
-          - stable-2.14
-          - stable-2.15
+          - stable-2.16
+          - stable-2.17
+        python_version:
+          - '3.10'
+          - '3.11'
+          - '3.12'
     steps:
       - name: check out code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -60,7 +58,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python_version }}
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: pip install -r requirements.txt
       - name: Install test dependencies
@@ -68,4 +66,4 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install ansible-base (${{ matrix.ansible_version }})
         run: pip install https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/${{ matrix.ansible_version }}.tar.gz --disable-pip-version-check
       - name: Run unit tests
-        run: ansible-test units -v --color --python "$PYTHON_VERSION"
+        run: ansible-test units -v --color --python "${{ matrix.python_version }}"