Ansible execution fails on RHEL 6 clients registered to Red Hat Satellite 6 with the following error "ansible-core requires a minimum of Python 2.7 or Python 3.5. Current version: 2.6.6".

Issue

• Ansible roles are failing to execute on RHEL 6 hosts.

  fatal: [host.example.com]: FAILED! => {"ansible_facts": {}, "changed": false, "failed_modules": 
  {"ansible.legacy.setup": {"ansible_facts": {"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"}, "failed": true, 
  "msg": "ansible-core requires a minimum of Python2 version 2.7 or Python3 version 3.6. Current version: 2.6.6 
  (r266:84292, Oct 25 2023, 10:11:41) [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23)]"}}, "msg": "The following modules 
  failed to execute: ansible.legacy.setup\n"}