Initial boot of RHEL CoreOS failing in AWS if network access is restricted in OpenShift Container Platform 4

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When using S3 source, and network isn't ready for its first metadata retrieval, the regionHint is nil and so defaults to us-east-1.
  • Bootstrap node fails downloading the ignition fragment from s3, while s3-eu-central-1 prefix lists are accessible. We can see in the logs that Ignition component tries to reach S3 in us-east-1 and therefore is failing as access to this network is not allowed and blocked by the VPC.

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1 and 4.2

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