Merge https://github.com/cisagov/skeleton-generic into lineage/skeleton

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ repos:
 
   # Ansible hooks
   - repo: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint
-    rev: v24.9.2
+    rev: v24.10.0
     hooks:
       - id: ansible-lint
         additional_dependencies:
@@ -176,17 +176,36 @@ repos:
           # necessary to add the ansible package itself as an
           # additional dependency, with the same pinning as is done in
           # requirements-test.txt of cisagov/skeleton-ansible-role.
-          # - ansible>=9,<10
+          #
+          # Version 10 is required because the pip-audit pre-commit
+          # hook identifies a vulnerability in ansible-core 2.16.13,
+          # but all versions of ansible 9 have a dependency on
+          # ~=2.16.X.
+          #
+          # It is also a good idea to go ahead and upgrade to version
+          # 10 since version 9 is going EOL at the end of November:
+          # https://endoflife.date/ansible
+          # - ansible>=10,<11
           # ansible-core 2.16.3 through 2.16.6 suffer from the bug
           # discussed in ansible/ansible#82702, which breaks any
           # symlinked files in vars, tasks, etc. for any Ansible role
           # installed via ansible-galaxy.  Hence we never want to
           # install those versions.
           #
+          # Note that the pip-audit pre-commit hook identifies a
+          # vulnerability in ansible-core 2.16.13.  The pin of
+          # ansible-core to >=2.17 effectively also pins ansible to
+          # >=10.
+          #
+          # It is also a good idea to go ahead and upgrade to
+          # ansible-core 2.17 since security support for ansible-core
+          # 2.16 ends this month:
+          # https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-core-support-matrix
+          #
           # Note that any changes made to this dependency must also be
           # made in requirements.txt in cisagov/skeleton-packer and
           # requirements-test.txt in cisagov/skeleton-ansible-role.
-          - ansible-core>=2.16.7
+          - ansible-core>=2.17
 
   # Terraform hooks
   - repo: https://github.com/antonbabenko/pre-commit-terraform