Migrating from OpenshiftSDN to OVN-Kubernetes is stuck and cluster is completely degraded

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Issue

  • Migration from OpenshiftSDN to OVN-Kubernetes is completely stuck and some nodes are still on OpenshiftSDN network, even though the migration was being done following the official documented procedure.
  • Cluster is degraded with nothing being rolled out and all nodes in NotReady state posting errors such:
container runtime network not ready: NetworkReady=false reason:NetworkPluginNotReady message:Network plugin returns error: No CNI configuration file in /etc/kubernetes/cni/net.d/. Has your network provider started?
  • Rebooting nodes doesn't change anything and machine config operator is not working, even if following the example from similar article.
  • Unknown if multus daemonset has rolled out or not, because pods are not starting as they need cluster network.
  • All ovnkube-node pods are in error or CrashLoopBackOff state.

Environment

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14+

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