To accommodate upgrades of 4.12 to 4.13 on a fips cluster, a rhel8 binary needed to be included in the rhel9 based 4.13 ovn-kubernetes container image. See https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-15962 for details.

This workaround is not needed on 4.14+ clusters, as minor upgrades from 4.12 will always land on 4.13.

A fix in the ovn-kubernetes repo needs to be accompanied by a config change in ocp-build-data, please coordinate with ART.