https://issues.redhat.com/browse/MGMT-15691 introduced the code restructuring related to external platform and oci via PR https://github.com/openshift/assisted-service/pull/5787 Assisted service needs to be re-vendored in the installer in 4.16 and 4.17 releases to make sure the assisted-service dependencies are consistent.

The master branch or 4.18 do not need this revendoring as the master branch was recently revendored via https://github.com/openshift/installer/pull/9058 

    4.17, 4.16

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