Ansible Operator Base Images
There have been some major changes in the Ansible ecosystem, primarily the addition of and the removal of these libraries from Ansible core. Ansible 2.9 is the last release of the “old way”, with forward compatibility for collections. This is the version officially supported by the Operator-SDK.
Ansible 2.11 is the future, and Operator-SDK will eventually provide only 2.11 images. Currently, 2.11 base images are in tech-preview. See: ansible-operator-2.11-preview.