In Quay, podman pull errors out with 502 bad gateway

Issue

• The command $ podman pull fails with the below error:

  $ podman pull <registry>/<image>:<tag>
  Trying to pull  <registry>/<image>:<tag>...
  Error: error pulling image " <registry>/<image>:<tag>": unable to pull <registry>/<image>:<tag>: unable to pull image: Error parsing 
  image configuration: Error fetching blob: invalid status code from registry 502 (Bad Gateway)
  

• The following type of SSL errors related to botocore are seen in Quay pod logs while pulling images:

  ...
  gunicorn-registry stdout | ssl.SSLError: [X509] PEM lib (_ssl.c:4265)
  gunicorn-registry stdout | urllib3.exceptions.SSLError: [X509] PEM lib (_ssl.c:4265)
  gunicorn-registry stdout | botocore.exceptions.SSLError: SSL validation failed for https://s3.openshift- 
  storage.svc.cluster.local:443/quay-datastore-bcca0914-d071-474b-854a-2f0f4fe72491 [X509] PEM lib (_ssl.c:4265)
  ...