This is a clone of issue OCPBUGS-34213. The following is the description of the original issue:
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This is a clone of issue OCPBUGS-34054. The following is the description of the original issue:
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The OCM-operator's imagePullSecretCleanupController attempts to prevent new pods from using an image pull secret that needs to be deleted, but this results in the OCM creating a new image pull secret in the meantime.

The overlap occurs when OCM-operator has detected the registry is removed, simultaneously triggering the imagePullSecretCleanup controller to start deleting and updating the OCM config to stop creating, but the OCM behavior change is delayed until its pods are restarted.

In 4.16 this churn is minimized due to the OCM naming the image pull secrets consistently, but the churn can occur during an upgrade given that the OCM-operator is updated first.