cilium: Unable to install Cilium: timeout while waiting for status to become successful

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What happened?

I was trying to install cilium on Ubuntu20.04 / amd64 in procedure aligned with https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/gettingstarted/k8s-install-default/#install-the-cilium-cli. It eventually failed with Error: Unable to install Cilium: timeout while waiting for status to become successful: context deadline exceeded message, and never be succeeded.

Cilium Version

root@edgemaster:~# cilium version
cilium-cli: v0.12.11 compiled with go1.19.3 on linux/amd64
cilium image (default): v1.12.2
cilium image (stable): v1.12.5
cilium image (running): unknown. Unable to obtain cilium version, no cilium pods found in namespace "kube-system"

Kernel Version

root@edgemaster:~# uname -a
Linux edgemaster 5.15.0-56-generic #62~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 22 21:24:20 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Kubernetes Version

root@edgemaster:~# kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"22", GitVersion:"v1.22.13", GitCommit:"a43c0904d0de10f92aa3956c74489c45e6453d6e", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2022-08-17T18:28:56Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.15", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"22", GitVersion:"v1.22.17", GitCommit:"a7736eaf34d823d7652415337ac0ad06db9167fc", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2022-12-08T11:42:04Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.15", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

Sysdump

root@edgemaster:~# cilium sysdump
🔍 Collecting sysdump with cilium-cli version: v0.12.11, args: [sysdump]
failed to create sysdump collector: failed to detect Cilium namespace, could not find Cilium installation in namespaces: [kube-system cilium]

Relevant log output

root@edgemaster:~# cilium install
ℹ️  Using Cilium version 1.12.2
🔮 Auto-detected cluster name: kubernetes
🔮 Auto-detected datapath mode: tunnel
🔮 Auto-detected kube-proxy has been installed
ℹ️  helm template --namespace kube-system cilium cilium/cilium --version 1.12.2 --set cluster.id=0,cluster.name=kubernetes,encryption.nodeEncryption=false,kubeProxyReplacement=disabled,operator.replicas=1,serviceAccounts.cilium.name=cilium,serviceAccounts.operator.name=cilium-operator,tunnel=vxlan
ℹ️  Storing helm values file in kube-system/cilium-cli-helm-values Secret
🔑 Found CA in secret cilium-ca
🔑 Generating certificates for Hubble...
🚀 Creating Service accounts...
🚀 Creating Cluster roles...
🚀 Creating ConfigMap for Cilium version 1.12.2...
🚀 Creating Agent DaemonSet...
🚀 Creating Operator Deployment...
⌛ Waiting for Cilium to be installed and ready...
    /¯¯\
 /¯¯\__/¯¯\    Cilium:         1 errors, 1 warnings
 \__/¯¯\__/    Operator:       OK
 /¯¯\__/¯¯\    Hubble:         disabled
 \__/¯¯\__/    ClusterMesh:    disabled
    \__/

Deployment        cilium-operator    Desired: 1, Ready: 1/1, Available: 1/1
DaemonSet         cilium             Desired: 1, Unavailable: 1/1
Containers:       cilium             Pending: 1
                  cilium-operator    Running: 1
Cluster Pods:     0/2 managed by Cilium
Image versions    cilium             quay.io/cilium/cilium:v1.12.2@sha256:986f8b04cfdb35cf714701e58e35da0ee63da2b8a048ab596ccb49de58d5ba36: 1
                  cilium-operator    quay.io/cilium/operator-generic:v1.12.2@sha256:00508f78dae5412161fa40ee30069c2802aef20f7bdd20e91423103ba8c0df6e: 1
Errors:           cilium             cilium          1 pods of DaemonSet cilium are not ready
Warnings:         cilium             cilium-lf6zz    pod is pending
↩️ Rolling back installation...

Error: Unable to install Cilium: timeout while waiting for status to become successful: context deadline exceeded

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