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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 8, 2021

TLS support for cloudctl tool to connect to internal repository in Airgap environment

Enable TLS support for cloudctl tool to connect to TLS based internal repository in Airgap environment

Per Cloud Pak for Business Automation documentation, "Installing the IBM operator catalog" in Airgap environment requires the usage of the cloudctl tool. This tool expects the user id and password to be passed as an argument to connect to local repository. Our local repositories support only TLS.

Example in Step 6d

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-biz-automation/21.0.x?topic=environment-installing-operator-catalog

cloudctl case launch \
--case ${OFFLINEDIR}/${CASE_ARCHIVE} \
--inventory ${CASE_INVENTORY_SETUP} \
--action configure-cluster-airgap \
--namespace ${NAMESPACE} \
--args "--registry ${LOCAL_REGISTRY} --user ${LOCAL_REGISTRY_USER} --pass ${LOCAL_REGISTRY_PASS} --inputDir ${OFFLINEDIR}" \
--tolerance 1


Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jan 18, 2022

    Thanks Bill for the update

  • Admin
    Bill Lawton
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    Jan 14, 2022

    There is a shift from this cloudctl tool to native Openshift tools.

    Podman will be used instead, which does support TLS authentiction.