In OpenShift 4 a control-plane node is stuck in updating status due to disk pressure

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Control-plane node is Ready, but it is stuck in "updating"
  • Node metadata reports that "kubelet has disk pressure"
    • Cleaning the Cri-o storage did not work
    • Pruning the container images did not work

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
    • Verified with 4.12, but may occurs with other versions.

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