ansible-role-ansible/tasks/ansible.yaml

---

- name: check version of ansible
  shell: pip3 show ansible | grep Version | cut -d ' ' -f 2
  ignore_errors: true
  changed_when: false
  register: get_ansible_version

- name: old ansible pip package removed
  pip:
    name: ansible
    state: absent
    executable: pip3
  when: ansible_installed_version is version('2.10', '<')

- name: ansible pip package
  pip:
    name: ansible
    state: latest
    executable: pip3