When doing offline SDN migration, setting the parameter "spec.migration.features.egressIP" to "false" to disable automatic migration of egressIP configuration doesn't work.

Environment

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x

Issue

• When doing offline SDN migration, setting the parameter "spec.migration.features.egressIP" to "false" to disable automatic migration of egressIP configuration doesn't work.

Resolution

• Currently this is awaiting a fix to function properly. When this is set and an offline migration of SDN to OVN is done, the egressIP will still be created.

Root Cause

This is a bug currently being tracked in This content is not included.OCPBUG-30948. Once a fix is released, this document will be updated with the fix versions.

Diagnostic Steps

Set the spec.migration.features.egressIP boolean to false as per step 3 in the Migrating to the OVN-Kubernetes network plugin

oc patch Network.operator.openshift.io cluster --type='merge' \
  --patch '{
    "spec": {
      "migration": {
        "networkType": "OVNKubernetes",
        "features": {
          "egressIP": false

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