Pod stuck in a ContainerCreating state with "failed (add): CmdAdd (shim): CNI request failed with status 400"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

After upgrading OpenShift to version 4.14, pods fail to start with the error message:

Failed to create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to create pod network sandbox xxxxxxxxx(xxxxxxxx): error adding pod yyyyyyyyyyyy to CNI network "multus-cni-network": plugin type="multus-shim" name="multus-cni-network" failed (add): CmdAdd (shim): CNI request failed with status 400

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
    • 4.14
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
    • 2.2 - 2.4.3

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