Upgrading from earlier Ansible installations

The splitting of Ansible into two packages, one of which is dependent on the other, has created some headaches for package maintainers. Whereas packages were readily available for CentOS and RHEL, there are no current packages of Ansible 4.3.0 or ansible-core 2.11.1. A quick look inside the EPEL packages directory for CentOS/RHEL 8 shows that the latest RPM available for Ansible is version 2.9.18. The official Ansible installation guide goes further:

Since Ansible 2.10 for RHEL is not available at this time, continue to use Ansible 2.9.

This will change in due course as package maintainers work out the pros and cons of the various upgrade paths and packaging technologies, but at the time of writing, there is a very clear expectation on your upgrade path if you want to get started with Ansible 4.3.0 now, and the easiest way to get your hands on this latest and greatest release is to install it using the Python packaging technology,...