Context:

In 4.14 kubelet config from MCO payload comes with --external, which means node.cloudprovider.kubernetes.io/uninitialized taint is set preventing workloads from being scheduled and only cleaned up by the external cloud provider.

This has come as a result of AWS removing their in-tree provider implementation for K8s 1.27

DoD:

We need to let the CPO run the AWS external cloud provider.