Location of images

Images for IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration are stored in IBM Cloud® Container Registry and the IBM Entitled Registry.

To use these registries, ensure they are accessible from your OpenShift cluster nodes. This process is explained in the next section.

IBM Cloud Container Registry and the IBM Entitled Registry

IBM Cloud Container Registry hosts IBM® software container images. Image permissions in this registry are linked to the software entitlement associated with IBM IDs.

The IBM Entitled Registry is part of IBM Cloud Container Registry. It contains images that require license entitlement (in the form of an entitlement key) to pull and run. For information on obtaining your entitlement key and applying it to your OpenShift cluster as a pull secret, see Finding and applying your entitlement key by using the UI (online installation).

The cpopen namespace hosts operator images that can be pulled without authentication. This enables you to configure OpenShift clusters for use with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration without having to supply an entitlement key. An entitlement key is required only when deploying instances.

The appc-dev namespace hosts images for IBM App Connect Enterprise for Developers. These images can be pulled without authentication.

The following images are available:

  • IBM Cloud Pak for Integration operators

  • Operator catalogs

  • All images that require entitlement to pull and run. This includes images used when deploying instances using the operators.

For the IBM Cloud Container Registry, CASE OCI artifact, and Cloud Pak foundational services catalog source, network flows must be open for TCP/IP traffic to the following hosts on the https (443) port:

  • icr.io

  • cp.icr.io

  • dd0.icr.io

  • dd2.icr.io

If the environment is in China, you must also allow the following hosts:

  • dd1-icr.ibm-zh.com

  • dd3-icr.ibm-zh.com