Kiali deployment fails in istio-system namespace: "Unable to Determine if Virtual Resource"

Issue

• After creating the Service Mesh control plane, the Kiali instance is not being initiated in the istio-system namespace, even after installing the Kiali operator.

Diagnostic Steps

• For diagnosis, verify the operator logs, where several tasks may be failing with errors. Messages similar to the following will appear in the logs:

$ oc logs kiali-operator-XXXXXX -n openshift-operators


TASK [v1.24/kiali-deploy : Create secret to store a random signing key if a secret does not already exist and we need one] ***

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{"level":"error","ts":1666234809.2403224,"logger":"proxy","msg":"Unable to determine if virtual resource","gvk":"/v1, Kind=Secret","error":"unable to retrieve the complete list of server APIs: external.metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1: the server is currently unable to handle the request","stacktrace":"github.com/go-logr/zapr.(*zapLogger).Error\n\toperator-sdk/vendor/github.com/go-logr/zapr/zapr.go:132\nsigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/log.(*DelegatingLogger).Error\n\toperator-sdk/vendor/sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/log/deleg.go:144\ngithub.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/internal/ansible/proxy.(*injectOwnerReferenceHandler).ServeHTTP\n\toperator-sdk/internal/ansible/proxy/inject_owner.go:89\ngithub.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/internal/ansible/proxy.(*cacheResponseHandler).ServeHTTP\n\toperator-sdk/internal/ansible/proxy/cache_response.go:148\nnet/http.serverHandler.ServeHTTP\n\t/usr/lib/golang/src/net/http/server.go:2867\nnet/http.(*conn).serve\n\t/usr/lib/golang/src/net/http/server.go:1932"}

========================================= Ansible Task StdOut ===========================================================

 TASK [Create secret to store a random signing key if a secret does not already exist and we need one] ********************************
^[[0;31mfatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "error": 500, "msg": "Failed to create object: b'Unable to determine if virtual resource\\n'", "reason": "Internal Server Error", "status": 500}