In the OpenShift installation process, a CVO pod runs on the bootstrap node. The pod's manifest is defined in bootstrap-pod.yaml which is slightly differently from the one created for the CVO deployment running on a control plane after installation.
To troubleshoot issues from the CVO pod on the bootstrap node, it is useful digging into the installer log and log-bundle. See OpenShift documentation for details about how they are collected.
In CI jobs, they are usually collected by a step during installation, such as ipi-install-install. See .openshift_install-1775655648.log and log-bundle-20260408134042.tar in the following files:
$ ls -A
.openshift_install-1775655648.log install-config.yaml
clusterapi_output-1775655648 log-bundle-20260408134042.tarIn "log-bundle", there are logs from the CVO pod and other manifests for inspection.