Error: SSL Error: SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN' while using npm in Node.js image

Issue

• ubi8/Node.js 18 build results in the following SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN issue:

  2024-07-31T16:29:56.115073554-04:00 Pulling image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/nodejs-18:latest ...
  2024-07-31T16:29:56.115750069-04:00 Trying to pull registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/nodejs-18:latest...
  2024-07-31T16:29:57.749827781-04:00 Getting image source signatures
  2024-07-31T16:29:57.749897413-04:00 Copying blob sha256:71ea029fdcc643be6a4b3dcf9a384e865d247b06f8a496922334008229a8e738
  2024-07-31T16:29:57.749916133-04:00 Copying blob sha256:376a7503a7e3f4f0174eab5f3cc8b99d957df631e9b39007ff8d3c38b15fb498
  2024-07-31T16:29:57.749925445-04:00 Copying blob sha256:d8955d3e8e04900a695f484cedfd2fb469e4965201c5b6e7dc70afbe15a612e8
  2024-07-31T16:30:09.268642698-04:00 Copying config sha256:bd26ee404c7b6d3a38dad08b666ce80658859a363592c0bdab8fa895e1337ba2
  2024-07-31T16:30:09.269669390-04:00 Writing manifest to image destination
  2024-07-31T16:30:09.288208756-04:00 Adding transient rw bind mount for /run/secrets/rhsm
  2024-07-31T16:30:09.288960886-04:00 [1/2] STEP 1/3: FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/nodejs-18:latest
  2024-07-31T16:30:09.295135277-04:00 [1/2] STEP 2/3: COPY package.json package-lock.json* ./
  2024-07-31T16:30:10.150563158-04:00 --> 8c35388dcb8a
  2024-07-31T16:30:10.154382724-04:00 [1/2] STEP 3/3: RUN if [ -f package-lock.json ]; then npm ci;   else npm install;   fi
  2024-07-31T16:31:21.458887226-04:00 npm ERR! code SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN
  2024-07-31T16:31:21.459087739-04:00 npm ERR! errno SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN
  2024-07-31T16:31:21.460143518-04:00 npm ERR! request to https://registry.npmjs.org/vary/-/vary-1.1.2.tgz failed, reason: self signed certificate in certificate chain
  2024-07-31T16:31:21.462679046-04:00 
  2024-07-31T16:31:21.462744262-04:00 npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /opt/app-root/src/.npm/_logs/2024-07-31T20_30_10_463Z-debug-0.log
  2024-07-31T16:31:21.597870344-04:00 error: build error: building at STEP "RUN if [ -f package-lock.json ]; then npm ci;   else npm install;   fi": while running runtime: exit status 1
  

• Sample nodejs/python application deployment is failing due to following errors,

  npm ERR! errno SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN
  npm ERR! request to https://registry.npmjs.org/vary/-/vary...ailed, reason: self signed certificate in certificate chain
  
  Could not fetch URL https://pypi.org/simple/flask/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='pypi.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /simple/flask/ (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self-signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1129)'))) - skipping