Multinode IPA jobs are failing to install FreeIPA packages - "Unknown Error occured: No available modular metadata for modular package"

[Ronelle Landy]

tripleo-ci-centos-8-standalone-on-multinode-ipa are failing the step to install FreeIPA packages:

2020-09-18 02:39:32.411998 | primary | TASK [ipa-multinode : install FreeIPA packages] ********************************
2020-09-18 02:39:32.412167 | primary | Friday 18 September 2020 02:39:32 +0000 (0:00:02.118) 0:03:06.427 ******
2020-09-18 02:40:14.368091 | primary | fatal: [subnode-1]: FAILED! => {
2020-09-18 02:40:14.368175 | primary | "changed": false,
2020-09-18 02:40:14.368204 | primary | "failures": [],
2020-09-18 02:40:14.368229 | primary | "rc": 1,
2020-09-18 02:40:14.368254 | primary | "results": []
2020-09-18 02:40:14.368278 | primary | }
2020-09-18 02:40:14.368302 | primary |
2020-09-18 02:40:14.368326 | primary | MSG:
2020-09-18 02:40:14.368368 | primary |
2020-09-18 02:40:14.368394 | primary | Unknown Error occured: No available modular metadata for modular package

This error is showing up consistently on upstream CI jobs from 09/18:
https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/builds?job_name=tripleo-ci-centos-8-standalone-on-multinode-ipa

Example log:
https://api.us-east.open-edge.io:8080/swift/v1/AUTH_e02c11e4e2c24efc98022353c88ab506/zuul_opendev_logs_aea/749645/54/check/tripleo-ci-centos-8-standalone-on-multinode-ipa/aea7134/job-output.txt

FreeIPA packages installed are:
ipa_packages:
  - ipa-server
  - ipa-server-dns
  - curl
  - iptables

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/752698

[Ronelle Landy (rlandy)]

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-September/056062.html

<ykarel> as per latest updates it should be fixed now.

Closing this out.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Ronelle Landy (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/752698