[chore] Upgrade CI workers for ansible tests (#5737)

Author: dmitryax

.github/workflows/ansible.yml

@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ jobs:
 
   lint:
     name: Lint
-    # Use 20.04.5 until https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/16450 is resolved
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: Check out the codebase.
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -56,8 +55,8 @@ jobs:
   linux-test:
     name: Linux Test
     needs: lint
-    # Use 20.04.5 until https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/16450 is resolved
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    # Use ubuntu-20.04.5 for containers with cgroups v1. Otherwise, use ubuntu-24.04 (cgroups v2).
+    runs-on: ${{ fromJSON('["ubuntu-24.04", "ubuntu-20.04"]')[contains(fromJSON('["amazonlinux2", "centos9", "opensuse12", "ubuntu1604"]'), matrix.distro)] }}
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -194,8 +193,7 @@ jobs:
   push-release-tag:
     name: Push Release Tag
     needs: lint
-    # Use 20.04.5 until https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/16450 is resolved
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout

deployments/ansible/molecule/config/docker.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ platforms:
     volumes:
       - /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:rw
     privileged: true
-    cgroupns: host
+    cgroupns_mode: host
     pre_build_image: false
 
 provisioner: