RequestTimeoutError occurring in Kafka message sends in OCP (Openshift) clusters.

[sglover]

Ignition-based drivers are hitting errors like this (especially when running in an OCP envrionment):

{“@timestamp”: “2020-06-29T06:53:15.530Z”, “@version”: “1", “message”: “Error sending envelope”, “host”: “kubedriver-64474b7978-xgkjv”, “path”: “/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ignition/service/messaging.py”, “tags”: [], “type”: “logstash”, “thread_name”: “kafka-python-producer-1-network-thread”, “level”: “ERROR”, “logger_name”: “ignition.service.messaging”, “stack_trace”: “kafka.errors.RequestTimedOutError: [Error 7] RequestTimedOutError: Request timed out after 30000 ms\n”, “lineno”: 198, “process”: 13}