minor: bump support for ansible from v2.16.* to v2.17.*

[andygrunwald]

Context

Fix #386

Last version bump

The last version bump was in 2e0a30d
It is not clear to me, why the version was set down to 2.16.* (from 2.17)

A lot of changes has been between Ansible v2.16.10 and v2.17.3, see ansible/ansible@v2.16.10...v2.17.3

Ansible version

The following ansible version is used with v0.17.1 of the ansible role prometheus.prometheus:

ansible [core 2.17.3]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/Users/andy.grunwald/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/10.3.0/libexec/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /Users/andy.grunwald/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /opt/homebrew/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.12.5 (main, Aug  6 2024, 19:08:49) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)] (/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/10.3.0/libexec/bin/python)
  jinja version = 3.1.4
  libyaml = True

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This PR has been merged and the docs are now incorporated into main:
https://prometheus-community.github.io/ansible/branch/main

[andygrunwald]

The GitHub Action workflow failure in Ansible CI / ansible-test-sanity / sanity-stable-2.9 (pull_request) is due to a non available docker image that can't be pulled. The failure is not PR / change related.

PRs like #411 may a solution to this.

[gardar]

Context

Fix #386

Last version bump

The last version bump was in 2e0a30d
It is not clear to me, why the version was set down to 2.16.* (from 2.17)

At that time 2.17 was unreleased, but those two are essentially equal, the operator "less than" 2.17 and "less than or equal to" 2.16.99

The reason for the change was due to how we are using the supported versions to do testing in the CI, but it has the same effect for the user.

Anyways, thanks for the PR, can you rebase?

[andygrunwald]

@gardar Rebased.

[gardar]

I think we need to exclude 2.17 from almalinux-8, since 2.17 is not supported on el8 based distros.

You can do so by adding it here:

ansible/.config/molecule/config.yml

Lines 75 to 90 in 15369b7

	host_vars:
	fedora-39:
	exclude_ansible_vers:
	- "2.9"
	- "2.10"
	- "2.11"
	fedora-40:
	exclude_ansible_vers:
	- "2.9"
	- "2.10"
	- "2.11"
	ubuntu-24.04:
	exclude_ansible_vers:
	- "2.9"
	- "2.10"
	- "2.11"

[andygrunwald]

@gardar Excluded in e0d0aa4