What happened (please include outputs or screenshots):

Ansible operator based on operator-sdk v1.20.0 and later fails with

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 3, "changed": false, "error": "[digital envelope routines: EVP_DigestInit_ex] disabled for FIPS", "msg": "Failed to get client due to %s"}

What you expected to happen:

Ansible operator continues to work after upgrading operator-sdk from v1.19.1 to v1.20.0 (and later)

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Run an Ansible operator using the k8s_status task on a FIPS-enabled OpenShift cluster.

Anything else we need to know?:

Please see operator-framework/operator-sdk#5723 (comment) for error details and a potential fix.

Environment:

• Kubernetes version (kubectl version):
• OS (e.g., MacOS 10.13.6):
• Python version (python --version)
• Python client version (pip list | grep kubernetes)