Air-gapped installation

In a disconnected environment using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), install API Connect by mirroring product images to a bastion host or a portable device and then completing the installation.

Before you begin

  • An air-gapped installation is not possible in the following environments:
    • Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
    • Red Hat OpenShift Service Kubernetes Service on IBM Cloud (ROKS)

About this task

If your cluster is not connected to the internet (it is network-restricted, or air-gapped), you can install API Connect in your cluster by using either a bastion host, a portable computer, or a portable storage device.

The following diagram illustrates how you can mirror product images for an air-gapped installation with a bastion host, a portable computer, or a portable storage device.

Three scenarios for mirroring images in an air-gapped environment

All of the scenarios use Container Application Software for Enterprises (CASE) files to mirror content from a source (on the internet) to an intermediary target (a bastion host, a portable computer, or a portable storage device) before pushing them to a local server or device.

Then, you can transfer the files to the local air-gapped network and run the installation.