now projects don't have any dockerconfig secrets created automatically and build processes in existing namespaces fail to push images due to authentication errors, such as the following: Registry server Address: Registry server User Name: <token> Registry server Email: Registry server Password: <<non-empty>> error: build error: Failed to push image: trying to reuse ...h token: invalid username/password: authentication required     

Yes    

This only starts after modifying  the image registry config and setting the value of spec.ManagementState from Managed to Removed then back to Managed.

I tried to create a new project and still seem the same issue of the dockerconfig secrets not being created.

on ⛵ 172-31-9-26:31103 in (default) ~ via 🐍 v3.9.18 
❯ oc new-project test-dockercfg
Now using project "test-dockercfg" on server "https://172.x.x.26:31103".

You can add applications to this project with the 'new-app' command. For example, try:

    oc new-app rails-postgresql-example

to build a new example application in Ruby. Or use kubectl to deploy a simple Kubernetes application:

    kubectl create deployment hello-node --image=registry.k8s.io/e2e-test-images/agnhost:2.43 -- /agnhost serve-hostname


on ⛵ 172-31-9-26:31103 in (test-dockercfg) ~ via 🐍 v3.9.18 
❯ oc get secrets 
No resources found in test-dockercfg namespace.

on ⛵ 172-31-9-26:31103 in (test-dockercfg) ~ via 🐍 v3.9.18 
❯ oc delete sa builder default deployer
serviceaccount "builder" deleted
serviceaccount "default" deleted
serviceaccount "deployer" deleted

on ⛵ 172-31-9-26:31103 in (test-dockercfg) ~ via 🐍 v3.9.18 
❯ oc create sa builder
error: failed to create serviceaccount: serviceaccounts "builder" already exists

on ⛵ 172-31-9-26:31103 in (test-dockercfg) ~ via 🐍 v3.9.18 
❯ oc get secrets 
No resources found in test-dockercfg namespace.     

When we created the new project the dockercfg secrets is not getting automatically created.

The dockercfg secrets should automatically got created.     

oc get configmap openshift-controller-manager-config -o yaml
<cropped>
controllers:
    - '*'
    - -openshift.io/serviceaccount-pull-secrets
<cropped> 

$ oc get hostedcontrolplane -n clusters-<hosted-cluster-name> -o yaml
spec:
    autoscaling: {}
    capabilities: {} 

$ oc get configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io/cluster -ojson | jq '.spec.managementState'
"Managed"