FailedUpdateRegistrationToken - No Pods for GHES Self-Hosted Action Runner

[dkuffar]

GitHub support ([Ticket 1878565]) suggest submitting ARC issue ; keep getting the following error in spite of rebuilding AKS v1.23.12 environment.

$ kubectl logs actions-runner-controller-d7d594b58-4njvk
ERROR actions-runner-controller.runner Failed to get new registration token {"runner": "ak8-runners-bicep-56f92-rtvql", "error": "failed to create registration token: Post "https://xxxx.yyy.zzzz.me/api/v3/orgs/OPM/actions/runners/registration-token\": could not refresh installation id 11's token: could not get access_tokens from GitHub API for installation ID 11: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority"}
github.com/actions-runner-controller/actions-runner-controller/controllers.(*RunnerReconciler).processRunnerCreation
/workspace/controllers/runner_controller.go:255
github.com/actions-runner-controller/actions-runner-controller/controllers.(*RunnerReconciler).Reconcile
/workspace/controllers/runner_controller.go:136
sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).Reconcile
/go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:121
sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).reconcileHandler
/go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:320
sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).processNextWorkItem
/go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:273
sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller).Start.func2.2
/go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:234
2022-11-18T04:01:52Z DEBUG events Warning {"object": {"kind":"Runner","namespace":"default","name":"ak8-runners-bicep-56f92-rtvql","uid":"49408250-4bb9-4451-834c-89e2e3f108ab","apiVersion":"actions.summerwind.dev/v1alpha1","resourceVersion":"302458"}, "reason": "FailedUpdateRegistrationToken", "message": "Updating registration token failed"}
$ kubectl describe runner
Events:
Type Reason Age From Message

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Warning FailedUpdateRegistrationToken 23m (x112 over 4h38m) runner-controller Updating registration token failed
Warning FailedUpdateRegistrationToken 23s (x7 over 18m) runner-controller Updating registration token failed