Where to get the products

Registries, catalogs, and IBM Passport Advantage

Registries are used to hold product container images (often called OCI images) or artifacts off-cluster. Operators can then pull these from the registry and install them on the cluster, ready to be managed across deployment environments using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. For more information, see Registry overview in the Red Hat documentation.

The following public registries contain images for IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack:

• IBM Cloud Container Registry https://icr.io . This is a multi-tenant, highly available, scalable, and encrypted image registry that is hosted and managed by IBM. For more information, see About Container Registry in the IBM Cloud Container Registry documentation.
• Ansible Galaxy. This refers to the Galaxy website which provides provides pre-packaged units of work that are known to Ansible as roles and collections. These allow the function of a service to be rolled out on Red Hat along with the ability to automate that new function.
• GitHub in IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Community

Catalogs are a means of discovering and installing operators on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. The following catalogs are used with IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack:

• IBM Operator Catalog, which is accessed through the web console OperatorHub on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. The catalog is provided as an index image (a containerized snapshot of the catalog) and added to a cluster through the CatalogSource resource. The image for the IBM Operator Catalog is icr.io/cpopen/ibm-operator-catalog. To display the IBM Operator Catalog in OperatorHub, enable the IBM Operator Catalog image by deploying a CatalogSource resource on your Red Hat OpenShift cluster. For information, see "Create a catalog source" in Preparing to install.

IBM Passport Advantage provides secure access to IBM software downloads and media. Here, you download any installable components that you need in order to install a product in IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack and that are not packaged as OCI images or OpenShift operators. For more information, see IBM Passport Advantage

Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform Operators

For these products, the package in the image registry is an OCI image.

Product	Image registry	Operator catalog	IBM Passport Advantage downloads
Wazi Analyze	IBM Cloud Container Registry	IBM Operator Catalog	- see Downloading installation packages
Wazi Code (Wazi for Dev Spaces)	IBM Cloud Container Registry	IBM Operator Catalog	- see Downloading installation packages
Wazi Sandbox	IBM Cloud Container Registry	IBM Operator Catalog	- see Downloading installation packages
z/OS Connect	IBM Cloud Container Registry	IBM Operator Catalog	n/a
z/OS Cloud Broker	IBM Cloud Container Registry	IBM Operator Catalog	n/a

z/OS Cloud Broker-managed suboperators

If you are not able to access Ansible Galaxy or GitHub locations, you can download the operator collections from the IBM Cloud Container registry. Make sure that you have IBM Cloud account. Alternatively, you can choose to install operator collections in air-gapped environments.