diff --git a/tests/requirements.txt b/tests/requirements.txt
index c94c6243b..8ead7edab 100644
--- a/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 # These are Python requirements needed to run the functional tests
-# 1.6.1 fails with 'testinfra is in an unsupported or invalid wheel'
-# see https://github.com/philpep/testinfra/issues/201
-testinfra==1.6.0
+# testinfra < 1.7.1 does not work Ansible 2.4, see https://github.com/philpep/testinfra/issues/249
+testinfra==1.7.1
 pytest-xdist
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 5b75c417d..d3874096c 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ setenv=
 deps=
   ansible2.2: ansible==2.2.3
   ansible2.3: ansible==2.3.1
+  ansible2.4: ansible==2.4.1
   -r{toxinidir}/tests/requirements.txt
 changedir=
   # tests a 1 mon, 1 osd, 1 mds and 1 rgw xenial cluster using non-collocated OSD scenario