Bug 1850774

Summary: race condition during installation between nodes getting their hostnames and crio+kubelet starting
Product: OpenShift Container Platform Reporter: Ben Howard <behoward>
Component: RHCOSAssignee: Ben Howard <behoward>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Michael Nguyen <mnguyen>
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Version: 4.5CC: bbreard, cswanson, imcleod, jkaur, jligon, nstielau, vjaypurk
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Description Ben Howard 2020-06-24 20:49:34 UTC
This bug was initially created as a copy of Bug #1845885

Description of problem:
When installing OCP in a BM environment if there is a *minutes* delay while the nodes are getting their hostnames by dhcp the crio daemon and kubelet will start with the system having localhost.localdomain and the pods won't be able to retrieve their images from the registry

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.4.6

How reproducible:
Install OCP 4.4.6 with a dhcp server that takes some time to send the answers to the DHCP requests of the nodes, the nodes will boot RHCOS and get localhost.localdomain, during that time crio and the kubelet will start with the wrong hostname data.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run the OCP installation with a dhcp server giving the network data
2.Have a delayed dhcp server to send the hostnames
3.Have the nodes with localhost.localdomain hostnames while crio and kubelet are starting

Actual results:
The nodes are booting and after a while they will get the proper hostnames but the first pods will stay in a "ContainerCreating" status because they won't be able to pull the images from the registry.

Expected results:
Nothing of that happens, even if the DHCP answer is long enough, the crio and kubelet daemons should wait to start until the hostname information is the right one (different form localhost.localdomain).

Additional info:
Telco setups and disconnected environments could face this situation with long delays since the nodes are requesting dhcp data and they are setting the proper hostnames.
A workaround that worked for us was to login in each node and run the following commands:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart nodeip-configuration.service
sudo systemcrl restart crio
sudo systemctl restart kubelet.service

Comment 1 Ben Howard 2020-06-24 20:52:31 UTC
Cloned for cherry-picking.

Comment 2 Ben Howard 2020-06-24 20:53:54 UTC
*** Bug 1846286 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Ben Howard 2020-07-10 19:48:01 UTC
Closed in favor of 1855877 which contains the fix for this (amoung other bugs) related to hostnames.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1855877 ***