diff --git a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
index 127897c..1407bff 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ansible-test.yml
@@ -33,7 +33,15 @@ jobs:
           - stable-2.13
           - stable-2.14
           - devel
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
+    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
+    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
+    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
+    # for the latest list.
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["stable-2.9", "stable-2.10", "stable-2.11", "stable-2.12", "stable-2.13", "stable-2.14"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
     steps:
       - name: Perform sanity testing
         uses: ansible-community/ansible-test-gh-action@release/v1
@@ -46,7 +54,15 @@ jobs:
             git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils.git ../../ansible/utils
 
   units:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
+    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
+    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
+    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
+    # for the latest list.
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["stable-2.9", "stable-2.10", "stable-2.11", "stable-2.12", "stable-2.13", "stable-2.14"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
     name: Units (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }})
     strategy:
       # As soon as the first unit test fails, cancel the others to free up the CI queue
@@ -75,7 +91,15 @@ jobs:
             git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.utils.git ../../ansible/utils
 
   integration:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    # Ansible-test on various stable branches does not yet work well with cgroups v2.
+    # Since ubuntu-latest now uses Ubuntu 22.04, we need to fall back to the ubuntu-20.04
+    # image for these stable branches. The list of branches where this is necessary will
+    # shrink over time, check out https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/28
+    # for the latest list.
+    runs-on: >-
+      ${{ contains(fromJson(
+          '["stable-2.9", "stable-2.10", "stable-2.11", "stable-2.12", "stable-2.13", "stable-2.14"]'
+      ), matrix.ansible) && 'ubuntu-20.04' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
     name: I (Ⓐ${{ matrix.ansible }}+py${{ matrix.python }})
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false