metal3 pod does not come up on SNO when creating Provisioning with provisioningNetwork set to Disabled

The issue is that on SNO, there is no Machine, and no BareMetalHost, it is looking of Machine objects to populate the provisioningMacAddresses field. However, when provisioningNetwork is Disabled, provisioningMacAddresses is not used anyway.

You can work around this issue by populating provisioningMacAddresses with a dummy address, like this:

kind: Provisioning
metadata:
  name: provisioning-configuration
spec:
  provisioningMacAddresses:
  - aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa
  provisioningNetwork: Disabled
  watchAllNamespaces: true

4.11.17

Try to bring up Provisioning on SNO in 4.11.17 with provisioningNetwork set to Disabled

apiVersion: metal3.io/v1alpha1
kind: Provisioning
metadata:
  name: provisioning-configuration
spec:
  provisioningNetwork: Disabled
  watchAllNamespaces: true

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controller/provisioning "msg"="Reconciler error" "error"="machines with cluster-api-machine-role=master not found" "name"="provisioning-configuration" "namespace"="" "reconciler group"="metal3.io" "reconciler kind"="Provisioning"

metal3 pod should be deployed

This issue is a result of this change: https://github.com/openshift/cluster-baremetal-operator/pull/307
See this Slack thread: https://coreos.slack.com/archives/CFP6ST0A3/p1670530729168599