Installing the operator

Now that your images are mirrored to your air-gapped environment, you can deploy IBM RPA to that environment. When you mirrored your environment, you created a parallel offline version of everything that you needed to install an operator into Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform.

Follow the procedure to install the operator.

Before you begin

Ensure that you meet the Prerequisites before proceeding.
See Namespace requirements.
Follow the steps in Configuring your environment.

Procedure

Using the oc login command, log in to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster where your final location resides. You can identify your specific oc login by clicking the user drop-down menu in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform console, then clicking Copy Login Command.
Use the following command to install the operator and the catalog sources:
```
cloudctl case launch \
--case $CASE_PATH \
--namespace $NAMESPACE \
--inventory $CASE_INVENTORY_SETUP \
--action install \
--args "--registry $LOCAL_REGISTRY --inputDir $HOME/.airgap"
```
- If you chose the own-namespace installation mode, set $NAMESPACE to your IBM RPA namespace.
- If you chose the all-namespace installation mode, set $NAMESPACE to openshift-operators.
Using the oc login command, log in to the Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform cluster where your final location resides. You can identify your specific oc login by clicking the user drop-down menu in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform console, then clicking Copy Login Command.
Verify that the operator is installed:
```
oc get pod -n ibm-automation-rpa 
```
It might take up to 15 minutes for all the pods to show the Running status.

Installing the operator

Before you begin

Procedure

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