MCO is seeing in CI regularly a degraded node exporter in CI runs: Example: { "lastTransitionTime": "2020-01-16T18:50:16Z", "message": "Failed to rollout the stack. Error: running task Updating node-exporter failed: reconciling node-exporter DaemonSet failed: updating DaemonSet object failed: waiting for DaemonSetRollout of node-exporter: daemonset node-exporter is not ready. status: (desired: 6, updated: 6, ready: 4, unavailable: 2)", "reason": "UpdatingnodeExporterFailed", "status": "True", "type": "Degraded" }, Example runs: https://storage.googleapis.com/origin-ci-test/pr-logs/pull/openshift_machine-config-operator/1356/pull-ci-openshift-machine-config-operator-master-e2e-gcp-op/844/artifacts/e2e-gcp-op/clusteroperators.json https://storage.googleapis.com/origin-ci-test/pr-logs/pull/openshift_machine-config-operator/1376/pull-ci-openshift-machine-config-operator-master-e2e-gcp-op/846/artifacts/e2e-gcp-op/clusteroperators.json https://storage.googleapis.com/origin-ci-test/pr-logs/pull/openshift_machine-config-operator/1356/pull-ci-openshift-machine-config-operator-master-e2e-gcp-op/835/artifacts/e2e-gcp-op/clusteroperators.json
Also seeing outside of MCO: https://storage.googleapis.com/origin-ci-test/logs/release-openshift-ocp-installer-e2e-vsphere-upi-4.4/441/artifacts/e2e-vsphere-upi/clusteroperators.json https://storage.googleapis.com/origin-ci-test/logs/release-openshift-origin-installer-e2e-gcp-shared-vpc-4.3/463/artifacts/e2e-gcp/clusteroperators.json
Fixed by https://github.com/openshift/cluster-monitoring-operator/pull/645 Initcontainers should be privileged.