[RHOCP 4.5] elasticsearch-rollover and elasticsearch-delete pods are in error states with 'ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded'

Issue

• elasticsearch-rollover and elasticsearch-delete pods are in error states with ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

$ oc logs jobs/elasticsearch-delete-app-1604990700

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 290, in load
    **kw)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode
    raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded