Resolving issues with interrupted, stalled or failing MTU migrations on Openshift 4.10+

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • MTU migration was interrupted and rollover has stalled
  • Selected incorrect MTU values when following the documentation and now cluster is unresponsive
  • Rollover of MTU results in node moving to NOTREADY and never coming back online
  • Machine Configuration pool stalls when MTU rollover is in progress, cannot recover
  • Error logged in SDN pods or similar during MTU rollout
F0606 17:32:42.939063  343976 cmd.go:118] Failed to start sdn: interface MTU (1500) is too small for specified overlay MTU (8950)

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP 4.x)
  • 4.10+

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