1. Proposed title of this feature request
Local Ignition during OCP installation

2. What is the nature and description of the request?

Customer is installing an OpenShift cluster using the Appliance installer, which uses the Agent-Based Installer under the hood. The difference from regular deployments is that the servers are connected to a physical network (undercloud), while the cluster will run on a virtual network (overcloud). This is part of RFE-8817.

3. Why does the customer need this?

Customer is injecting the required configuration to bring up networking during discovery phase using ignition. The problem is that upong second boot the node will try to get its ignition configuration from the MachineConfigServer via network, which will not work since the network cannot be configured at boot time. This is explained in detail in the following doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WLSIZt_Vzk51_ireuIOPTYhcavXM_8no5LiVsgj5MaU/edit?tab=t.0.

4. List any affected packages or components.
OpenShift Installer (AI, ABI, etc.)