Preface

When your Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage environment is not directly connected to the internet, some additional configuration is required to provide the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) with alternatives to the default Operator Hub and image registries.

See the OpenShift Container Platform documentation for more general information: Using Operator Lifecycle Manager on restricted networks.

To configure your cluster for disconnected operation:

  1. Configure authentication for an alternative registry.
  2. Build and mirror the Red Hat operator catalog.
  3. Creating Operator imageContentSourcePolicy
  4. Creating a CatalogSource from a mirrored catalog

When these steps are complete, continue with deployment as usual.