The latest 4.17-e2e-aws-ovn-workers-rhel8 job, such as https://gcsweb-ci.apps.ci.l2s4.p1.openshiftapps.com/gcs/test-platform-results/logs/periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.17-e2e-aws-ovn-workers-rhel8/1828966105192861696/artifacts/e2e-aws-ovn-workers-rhel8/workers-rhel-scaleup/build-log.txt 

is failing for 

    "stderr_lines": [
        "time=\"2024-08-29T02:21:37Z\" level=warning msg=\"Using cgroups-v1 which is deprecated in favor of cgroups-v2 with Podman v5 and will be removed in a future version. Set environment variable `PODMAN_IGNORE_CGROUPSV1_WARNING` to hide this warning.\"",
        "Error: cni support is not enabled in this build, only netavark. Got unsupported network backend \"cni\""



Checked on the RHEL machine, the podman version being installed now is ""Installed: podman-4:5.2.0-3.rhaos4.17.el8.x86_64" which doesn't support "cni" network backend anymore, so all podman commands will fail.  
https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-network.1.html 

[root@ptalgulk-29c-v5f5q-w-a-l-rhel-0 ~]# podman ps 
WARN[0000] Using cgroups-v1 which is deprecated in favor of cgroups-v2 with Podman v5 and will be removed in a future version. Set environment variable `PODMAN_IGNORE_CGROUPSV1_WARNING` to hide this warning. Error: cni support is not enabled in this build, only netavark. Got unsupported network backend "cni"


The network_backend is configured to "cni" by default in containers-common-1-86.rhaos4.17.el8.x86_64 package.

[root@ptalgulk-29c-v5f5q-w-a-l-rhel-0 ~]# grep ^network_backend /usr/share/containers/containers.conf
network_backend = "cni" 
[root@ptalgulk-29c-v5f5q-w-a-l-rhel-0 ~]# rpm -qf /usr/share/containers/containers.conf
containers-common-1-86.rhaos4.17.el8.x86_64

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