Kubelet restarts continually with the "kubelet.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=255" error.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After a node reboot or Kubelet manual restart, Kubelet is unable to start and exits with exit code 255 and the message:
Control process exited, code=exited status=255
  • Manually stopping and starting Kubelet doesn't fix the issue.

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4.11.

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