Installing the IBM RPA operator in an offline environment

About this task

It is common in production to have a cluster that cannot access the internet. In these cases, you can still install IBM RPA and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) in an air-gapped (otherwise known as offline or disconnected) environment. An air-gapped installation uses the IBM operator catalog to mimic a typical online installation except that the Cloud Pak images are in your own registry. You first store the images to a bastion server and then transfer them to a local air-gapped network. A bastion server is a device that has access to both the public internet and an internal local registry on an OCP cluster that is protected by a firewall. Using the bastion server, you can replicate your images through the bastion server directly to the local registry. The OCP cluster can then continue to use the images behind the firewall.

See the following sections for details about the process of installing IBM RPA server in an air-gapped environment:

• Pre-installation requirements
• Configure your environment
• Install the IBM RPA operator
• Access the console