For this scenario, im trying to migrate replicationcontroller (RC) between two OCP with different version. One OCP is on version 3.x, while the other one is 4.x.
So, it’s actually quite tricky. This is the first method that im doing, a simple export on OCP 3

oc get rc -o yaml -n projectname --export > rc.yaml

And do a simple import on OCP 4

oc create -n projectname -f rc.yaml

But there are some error happens,

Error from server (Forbidden): replicationcontrollers "rc-1" is forbidden: 
cannot set blockOwnerDeletion if an ownerReference refers to a resource you can't set finalizers on: no RBAC policy matched, <nil>

It seems like despite im using –export parameter, somehow still exporting the previous DC uid on rc.yaml

    labels:
      app: HelloWorld
      group: com.redhat.edw
      openshift.io/deployment-config.name: helloworld
      provider: fabric8
      version: "1.0"
    name: helloworld-5
    namespace: project
    ownerReferences:
    - apiVersion: apps.openshift.io/v1
      blockOwnerDeletion: true
      controller: true
      kind: DeploymentConfig
      name: helloworld
      uid: 8a96de62-9be4-11ea-a05c-0a659b38d468
    resourceVersion: "65350349"
    selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/project/replicationcontrollers/helloworld-5
    uid: 257eda84-9be7-11ea-a05c-0a659b38d468

The solution is by removing ownerReferences tag from yaml,

sed -i '/ownerReferences/,+6 d' rc.yaml

It will regenerate ownerReference tag once successfully imported to a new project.

But another problem arise. It seems like despite i’ve successfully import all my RCs, they are not showing when i do a oc get rc command. The culprit is revisionHistoryLimit, removing it from our dc solve this problem.

oc patch  dc helloworld -n project --type json --patch '[{ "op": "remove", "path": "/spec/revisionHistoryLimit" }]'