diff --git a/meta/runtime.yml b/meta/runtime.yml
index 2fe301c..d0f5b38 100644
--- a/meta/runtime.yml
+++ b/meta/runtime.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 # Collections must specify a minimum required ansible version to upload
 # to galaxy
-requires_ansible: '>=2.9.10'
+requires_ansible: '>=2.16.0'
 
 # Content that Ansible needs to load from another location or that has
 # been deprecated/removed