diff --git a/playbooks/roles/create-venv/tasks/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/create-venv/tasks/main.yaml
index 2fa84f6392..a84dcec874 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/create-venv/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/create-venv/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -49,6 +49,6 @@
   when: _venv_requirements_txt.changed
   pip:
     requirements: '{{ create_venv_path }}/requirements-venv.txt'
-    extra_args: '--upgrade'
+    state: latest
     virtualenv: '{{ create_venv_path }}'
     virtualenv_command: '/usr/bin/python3 -m venv'
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/install-ansible/tasks/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/install-ansible/tasks/main.yaml
index 23fdfc0381..dabfba0ad2 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/install-ansible/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/install-ansible/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@
   when: _requirements_updated.changed
   pip:
     requirements: '/usr/ansible-venv/requirements.txt'
-    virtualenv: '/usr/ansible-venv'
     # Always upgrade because only called in response to
     # requirements.txt changes.
-    extra_args: '--upgrade'
+    state: latest
+    virtualenv: '/usr/ansible-venv'
 
 # From Ansible 2.10 >= most of the fun stuff is in collections.  Clone
 # our required collections here.  Note this is only for our testing of