diff --git a/plugins/tasks/ansible/pom.xml b/plugins/tasks/ansible/pom.xml
index c4c7d05ede..eaac1baa2e 100644
--- a/plugins/tasks/ansible/pom.xml
+++ b/plugins/tasks/ansible/pom.xml
@@ -65,10 +65,6 @@
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.ini4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>ini4j</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
 
         <!-- Immutables -->
         <dependency>
diff --git a/plugins/tasks/ansible/src/main/java/com/walmartlabs/concord/plugins/ansible/AnsibleConfig.java b/plugins/tasks/ansible/src/main/java/com/walmartlabs/concord/plugins/ansible/AnsibleConfig.java
index 93465cc8fd..03baac7464 100644
--- a/plugins/tasks/ansible/src/main/java/com/walmartlabs/concord/plugins/ansible/AnsibleConfig.java
+++ b/plugins/tasks/ansible/src/main/java/com/walmartlabs/concord/plugins/ansible/AnsibleConfig.java
@@ -21,13 +21,10 @@
  */
 
 import com.walmartlabs.concord.common.ConfigurationUtils;
-import org.ini4j.Ini;
-import org.ini4j.Profile;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption;
@@ -37,6 +34,7 @@
 
 import static com.walmartlabs.concord.sdk.MapUtils.getMap;
 import static com.walmartlabs.concord.sdk.MapUtils.getString;
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
 public class AnsibleConfig {
 
@@ -87,7 +85,7 @@ public Path write() {
 
         Path cfgPath = getConfigPath();
         try {
-            Files.write(cfgPath, b.toString().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8), StandardOpenOption.CREATE);
+            Files.write(cfgPath, b.toString().getBytes(UTF_8), StandardOpenOption.CREATE);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             log.error("Configuration write {} error", CFG_FILE_NAME, e);
             throw new RuntimeException("Configuration write error: " + e.getMessage());
@@ -186,21 +184,43 @@ private static StringBuilder addCfgSection(StringBuilder b, String name, Map<Str
 
     private Map<String, Map<String, Object>> loadFromFile(Path file) {
         try {
-            Ini ini = new Ini();
-            ini.load(file.toFile());
-
-            Map<String, Map<String, Object>> result = new HashMap<>();
-            for (Map.Entry<String, Profile.Section> e : ini.entrySet()) {
-                Map<String, Object> section = new HashMap<>();
-                for (Map.Entry<String, String> s : e.getValue().entrySet()) {
-                    section.put(s.getKey(), s.getValue());
-                }
-                result.put(e.getKey(), section);
-            }
-            return result;
+            return parseIniFile(file);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             log.error("Configuration parse error: {}", e.getMessage());
             throw new RuntimeException("Configuration parse error " + file + ": " + e.getMessage());
         }
     }
+
+    private static Map<String, Map<String, Object>> parseIniFile(Path file) throws IOException {
+        Map<String, Map<String, Object>> result = new HashMap<>();
+        Map<String, Object> currentSection = null;
+        for (String line : Files.readAllLines(file, UTF_8)) {
+            line = line.trim();
+
+            if (line.isEmpty() || line.startsWith("#") || line.startsWith(";")) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (line.startsWith("[") && line.endsWith("]")) {
+                String sectionName = line.substring(1, line.length() - 1).trim();
+                currentSection = new HashMap<>();
+                result.put(sectionName, currentSection);
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (currentSection != null && line.contains("=")) {
+                int equalIndex = line.indexOf("=");
+                String key = line.substring(0, equalIndex).trim();
+                String value = line.substring(equalIndex + 1).trim();
+
+                if ((value.startsWith("\"") && value.endsWith("\"")) ||
+                    (value.startsWith("'") && value.endsWith("'"))) {
+                    value = value.substring(1, value.length() - 1);
+                }
+
+                currentSection.put(key, value);
+            }
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/targetplatform/pom.xml b/targetplatform/pom.xml
index ac77d3a6ae..bd141fe2c9 100644
--- a/targetplatform/pom.xml
+++ b/targetplatform/pom.xml
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@
         <httpcore.version>4.4.13</httpcore.version>
         <httpmime.version>4.5.11</httpmime.version>
         <immutables.version>2.9.3</immutables.version>
-        <ini4j.version>0.5.4</ini4j.version>
         <jackson.databind.version>2.18.3</jackson.databind.version>
         <jackson.jsonschema.version>1.0.39</jackson.jsonschema.version>
         <jackson.version>2.18.3</jackson.version>
@@ -989,11 +988,6 @@
                 <artifactId>config</artifactId>
                 <version>${config.version}</version>
             </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.ini4j</groupId>
-                <artifactId>ini4j</artifactId>
-                <version>${ini4j.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.javers</groupId>
                 <artifactId>javers-core</artifactId>