How to: Access OpenShift 4.0 node filesystem from a pod

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OpenShift 4.0 allows SSH access into the node but only from a bastion computer which is in the same VPC as the cluster itself, since masters do not have publicly available IP addresses. SSHing into the node also taints the node as unschedulable, which is not the desired state. One way to circumvent this and still debug the node is to create a rescue pod and then bind mount the node filesystem ...

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