Description of problem:

# Problem was detected by web-console pods failing to start:
[root@starter-us-east-2a-master-a7116 ~]# oc get pods -n openshift-web-console -o=wide
NAME                          READY     STATUS             RESTARTS   AGE       IP             NODE                                          NOMINATED NODE
webconsole-64c9fb4b6d-4lqp6   1/1       Running            24         1d        10.130.1.118   ip-172-31-69-150.us-east-2.compute.internal   <none>
webconsole-64c9fb4b6d-6pp6c   1/1       Running            62         1d        10.128.0.184   ip-172-31-69-80.us-east-2.compute.internal    <none>
webconsole-64c9fb4b6d-f2vsv   0/1       CrashLoopBackOff   391        1d        10.129.0.209   ip-172-31-75-97.us-east-2.compute.internal    <none>


# Pods a failing because they cannot find route to kube master
[root@starter-us-east-2a-master-a7116 ~]# oc logs webconsole-64c9fb4b6d-f2vsv -n openshift-web-console
Error: Get https://172.30.0.1:443/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server: dial tcp 172.30.0.1:443: getsockopt: no route to host


# The pod was running on a master and the kube route was not present in iptables
[root@starter-us-east-2a-master-cecf1 ~]# iptables-save | grep 172.30.0.1/

# I noted that iptables was failing to start because of an seemingly invalid PSAD rule in /etc/sysconfig/iptables:
[root@starter-us-east-2a-master-cecf1 ~]# systemctl status iptables
● iptables.service - IPv4 firewall with iptables
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/iptables.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-03-15 20:36:53 UTC; 1 day 21h ago
  Process: 9339 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/iptables/iptables.init start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 9339 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Mar 15 20:36:52 ip-172-31-75-97.us-east-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Starting IPv4 firewall with iptables...
Mar 15 20:36:53 ip-172-31-75-97.us-east-2.compute.internal iptables.init[9339]: iptables: Applying firewall rules: iptables-restore: line 350 failed
Mar 15 20:36:53 ip-172-31-75-97.us-east-2.compute.internal iptables.init[9339]: [FAILED]
Mar 15 20:36:53 ip-172-31-75-97.us-east-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: iptables.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 15 20:36:53 ip-172-31-75-97.us-east-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Failed to start IPv4 firewall with iptables.
Mar 15 20:36:53 ip-172-31-75-97.us-east-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Unit iptables.service entered failed state.
Mar 15 20:36:53 ip-172-31-75-97.us-east-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: iptables.service failed.

# The rule that seems to be impossible to load (I believe ops security added this):
-A OUTPUT -m comment --comment id_output_psad_logging_1_ -o eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m hashlimit --hashlimit-above 40/sec --hashlimit-burst 60 --hashlimit-mode srcip --hashlimit-name psad3 -j LOG --log-prefix "PSAD:"


It is not clear what factors contribute to the kube route not being created by the SDN in iptables.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
v3.11.82


How reproducible:
100% on affected masters (restarts had no effect)

Actual results:
pods could not communicate with kube b/c iptables lacked an entry.

Expected results:
Whatever was causing the failure would ideally be detected and reported in sdn or ovs logs. 


Additional info:

http://file.rdu.redhat.com/~jupierce/share/no-route-to-kube.tgz elements of the system I collected before trying to solve the problem:
- iptables-save output before working on fixing the cluster
- journal entries from iptables server
- a copy of /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Steps taken to get this cluster working again:
mv /etc/sysconfig/iptables /etc/sysconfig/iptables.containsbak
systemctl stop atomic-openshift-node
systemctl stop docker
systemctl stop iptables
systemctl disable iptables
systemctl mask iptables
iptables -F
iptables -tnat --flush
systemctl start docker
systemctl start atomic-openshift-node
delete pods for ovs & sdn for affected master
*wait a few minutes*
eventually, `iptables-save | grep 172.30.0.1/` begins returning results