Thanks very much @Alessandro. Your suggestion helped me progress a bit. For the benefit of any other who may have the same issue, this is what I did: The ansible upgrade takes place during the engine update within the script - /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ovirt/ovirt/roles/engine_setup/tasks/engine_setup.yml, in the task "Update all packages". For now, I have simply excluded ansible-core to be upgraded; the task would look like the following: - name: Update all packages ansible.builtin.yum: name: '*' state: latest conf_file: /tmp/yum.conf exclude: - ansible-core when: not ovirt_engine_setup_offline | bool tags: - "skip_ansible_lint" # ANSIBLE0010 I welcome any suggestion to improve this. However, the setup process failed further down the line (as I have included below in the main thread).