Revert "OCPBUGS-104572: NetworkManager-ovs has moved up to RHCOS"

[redhat-chai-bot]

This reverts the NetworkManager-ovs removal from PR #1952.

The removal caused widespread bootstrap failures (NetworkManager plugin for 'ovs-bridge' unavailable) when the base RHCOS image did not include the package due to versionlock skew (COS-4780, COS-4781).

Without NetworkManager-ovs, nodes cannot manage OVS bridges, br-ex never comes up, OVN networking fails, kubelet cannot start, and bootstrap times out.

Affected payloads include 5.0.0-0.nightly-2026-08-06-203809 and likely other recent 5.0 nightlies.

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@redhat-chai-bot: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-104572, which is invalid:

• expected the bug to be in one of the following states: NEW, ASSIGNED, POST, but it is ON_QA instead

Comment /jira refresh to re-evaluate validity if changes to the Jira bug are made, or edit the title of this pull request to link to a different bug.

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In response to this:

This reverts the NetworkManager-ovs removal from PR #1952.

The removal caused widespread bootstrap failures (NetworkManager plugin for 'ovs-bridge' unavailable) when the base RHCOS image did not include the package due to versionlock skew (COS-4780, COS-4781).

Without NetworkManager-ovs, nodes cannot manage OVS bridges, br-ex never comes up, OVN networking fails, kubelet cannot start, and bootstrap times out.

Affected payloads include 5.0.0-0.nightly-2026-08-06-203809 and likely other recent 5.0 nightlies.

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/payload-job periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-serial-1of2

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@tthvo: trigger 1 job(s) for the /payload-(with-prs|job|aggregate|job-with-prs|aggregate-with-prs) command

• periodic-ci-openshift-release-main-nightly-5.0-e2e-aws-ovn-serial-1of2

See details on https://pr-payload-tests.ci.openshift.org/runs/ci/4a5dcb10-91f2-11f1-90a2-45343879ca13-0

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[openshift-ci-robot]

@redhat-chai-bot: Jira Issue OCPBUGS-104572 is in an unrecognized state (ON_QA) and will not be moved to the MODIFIED state.

Details

In response to this:

This reverts the NetworkManager-ovs removal from PR #1952.

The removal caused widespread bootstrap failures (NetworkManager plugin for 'ovs-bridge' unavailable) when the base RHCOS image did not include the package due to versionlock skew (COS-4780, COS-4781).

Without NetworkManager-ovs, nodes cannot manage OVS bridges, br-ex never comes up, OVN networking fails, kubelet cannot start, and bootstrap times out.

Affected payloads include 5.0.0-0.nightly-2026-08-06-203809 and likely other recent 5.0 nightlies.

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@sdodson requested in Slack thread

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[openshift-merge-robot]

Fix included in release 5.0.0-0.nightly-2026-08-06-203809