diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index be1faebc3..00d745372 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # These are Python requirements needed to run ceph-ansible master
-ansible>=2.8,<2.9
+ansible>=2.8.8,<2.9
 netaddr
diff --git a/tests/requirements.txt b/tests/requirements.txt
index fb9a3f265..9450335ff 100644
--- a/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ six==1.10.0
 testinfra>=3.2,<3.3
 pytest-xdist==1.28.0
 pytest>=4.6,<5.0
-ansible>=2.8,<2.9
+ansible>=2.8.8,<2.9
 Jinja2>=2.10
 netaddr
 mock