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Hi All, I am using below tech note to install MAS using AWS single node approach. 

Save Costs with Single Node OpenShift Deployments of IBM Maximo on AWS | Amazon Web Services

I followed all the prerequisites per this note. However, I am encountering the following errors when creating the OpenShift cluster on using mas provision-aws command.

FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: ipi : Create cluster (4 retries left).

FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: ipi : Create cluster (3 retries left).

Upon checking my AWS console, it is creating multiple VPCs may be due to retrying. 

Any thoughts on what should I be checking? Thanks

I'd check Route 53 first. Then I'd make sure your AWX credentials have the proper access. 

For OpenShift IPI on AWS, the **base domain must already exist as a valid Route 53 hosted zone**, and the installer will create the cluster subdomain records under:

cluster-name.base-domain
Example: maximodemo.dummydomain.com

So that part is expected. IBM's AWS install docs note that MAS/OpenShift uses a public hosted zone for cluster access/DNS routing. 

I'd suggest checking:

aws route53 list-hosted-zones | grep dummydomain.com

Then confirm the zone is in the same AWS account being used by mas provision-aws.

The multiple VPCs are likely from repeated installer retries/failures where cleanup did not complete. I'd clean up any failed cluster resources before re-running, or use a fresh unique cluster name.

I would also verify that dummydomain.com is not just used by other resources, but is actually delegated correctly in Route 53 and can support a new child cluster domain.

Most likely issue:
DNS/base domain hosted zone mismatch
stale failed install resources, or
the AWS credentials don't have full permissions to manage DNS resources.