RHOCP4: Pods stuck in ContainerCreating with multus-cni-network errors

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • oc command response times are elevated.

  • Events relaing to multus are logged with all pods stuck in ContainerCreating.

Failed to create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to create pod network sandbox k8s_network-metrics-daemon-rvwdq_openshift-multus_51c70f08-f7d9-425a-bc21-36960b773302_0(7
6309d9054ddb7d24bbfe0bb24b6060df1b4f4cef8c1d9edbbefbe1c1f6c65ff): error adding pod openshift-multus_network-metrics-daemon-rvwdq to CNI network "multus-cni-network": plugin type="multus" name="multus-cni-network" failed (add): Multus: [openshift-multus/n
etwork-metrics-daemon-rvwdq/51c70f08-f7d9-425a-bc21-36960b773302]: error getting pod: Get "https://[api-int.example.com]:6443/api/v1/namespaces/openshift-multus/pods/network-metrics-daemon-rvwdq?timeout=1m0s": context deadline exceeded
  • Attempting to login with the token associated to the multus serviceAccount returns HTTP 403/429.

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) 4
  • User Provisioned Installation (UPI)

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