openshift-metering hive-metastore not starting with error datastore driver was not found in the CLASSPATH

Issue

• After upgrading metering operator to OCP 4.6 fails to start with error:

  21/01/07 13:10:37 [main]: INFO metastore.HiveMetaStore: 0: Opening raw store with implementation class:org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore
  21/01/07 13:10:37 [main]: INFO metastore.ObjectStore: ObjectStore, initialize called
  21/01/07 13:10:37 [main]: ERROR DataNucleus.Datastore: Exception thrown creating StoreManager. See the nested exception
  org.datanucleus.exceptions.NucleusException: Error creating transactional connection factory
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  Caused by: org.datanucleus.exceptions.NucleusException: Attempt to invoke the "BONECP" plugin to create a ConnectionPool gave an error : The specified datastore driver ("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver") was not found in the CLASSPATH. Please check your CLASSPATH specification, and the name of the driver.
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  Caused by: org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.connectionpool.DatastoreDriverNotFoundException: The specified datastore driver ("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver") was not found in the CLASSPATH. Please check your CLASSPATH specification, and the name of the driver.
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