Failed ci: Pod can not be created: create pod test-pod ... in cluster default: Unauthorized

[wzshiming]

What happened:

Pod can not be created: create pod test-pod ... in cluster default: Unauthorized

Yesterday the CI was fine and today it reports this error.
I see that the ci image was updated yesterday by #27913, may be is this the reason?

What you expected to happen:

CI works normally

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Please provide links to example occurrences, if any:

https://prow.k8s.io/pr?query=is%3Apr+repo%3Akubernetes-sigs%2Fkwok+author%3Awzshiming+head%3Afeat%2Fcni

Anything else we need to know?:

#27913

[MadhavJivrajani]

/sig testing

[liggitt]

this is impacting multiple jobs, do we know what changed that caused this, and can that change be reverted?

[chaodaiG]

I believe this was not caused by any code change. The root cause is that Kubernetes external secret ran into a weird state and refused to sync the kubeconfig secret from GCP secret manager to the Prow service cluster. It's now mitigated by restarting the Kubernetes external secret deployment. Longer term fix is expected in #24869

More detailed are on Slack https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C7J9RP96G/p1667877096344719

[chaodaiG]

/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@chaodaiG: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

/close

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[sbueringer]

Thank you very much!!