diff --git a/.ci/ansible_tests.py b/.ci/ansible_tests.py
index 77541d16..574778a1 100755
--- a/.ci/ansible_tests.py
+++ b/.ci/ansible_tests.py
@@ -37,15 +37,6 @@ with ci_lib.Fold('docker_setup'):
 
 
 with ci_lib.Fold('job_setup'):
-    # Don't set -U as that will upgrade Paramiko to a non-2.6 compatible version.
-    # run("pip install -q ansible==%s", ci_lib.ANSIBLE_VERSION)
-    # ansible v2.10 isn't out yet so we're installing from github for now
-    # encoding is required for installing ansible 2.10 with pip2, otherwise we get a UnicodeDecode error
-    run('LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pip install -q {}'.format(ci_lib.ANSIBLE_VERSION))
-
-    # after ansible is installed, install common collections until ansible==2.10 comes out
-    run('ansible-galaxy collection install community.general')
-
     os.chdir(TESTS_DIR)
     os.chmod('../data/docker/mitogen__has_sudo_pubkey.key', int('0600', 7))