LooseVersion instance has no attribute version - awx installation in openshift error

Question

I am following the official documentation to install awx in openshift https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/INSTALL.md. The steps are under Openshift install steps.

When I update the inventory file and run ansible-playbook -i inventory install.yml I get the following error in Task TASK [kubernetes : Use correct cli option for kubeconfig] (please refer to the step here)

ERROR: fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Version comparison: LooseVersion instance has no attribute 'version'"}

Using ansible version:

ansible 2.9.7
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.5

I am not able to find any solutions online, any help is much appreciated.

UPDATE: Output of oc version and oc version | sed -n 's/oc v//p' is in the below image.

Answer 1

As a workaround I hard-coded this step to use --kubeconfig as I know my version is 4.2 (above 3.11)

Just set oc_kubeconfig_option: '--kubeconfig' and I was successfully able to deploy an AWX instance.