Unable to authenticate the request due to an error: [invalid bearer token, token lookup failed]

Solution Verified - Updated 2023-09-07T01:38:53+00:00 -

Issue

On a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x cluster, the following error is observed in kube-apiserver logs:

E0202 14:54:20.968426  200 authentication.go:53] Unable to authenticate the request due to an error: [invalid bearer token, token lookup failed]

Some OpenShift components and pods receiving Unauthorized errors when accessing the API

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