Uyuni Server Air-gapped Deployment
Table of Contents
1. What is Air-gapped Deployment?
Air-gapped deployment refers to the setup and operation of any networked system that is physically isolated from insecure networks, especially the internet. This type of deployment is commonly used in high-security environments such as military installations, financial systems, critical infrastructure, and anywhere sensitive data is handled and must be protected from external threats.
You can easily deploy container images using Podman
, Docker
, or Skopeo
on a machine with internet access.
Procedure
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Pull the desired image, then save the image as a
tar
archive. For example:Listing 1. Podmanpodman pull registry.suse.com/suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server:5.0.0 podman save --output server.tar registry.suse.com/suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server:5.0.0
Listing 2. Dockerdocker pull registry.suse.com/suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server:5.0.0 docker save --output server.tar registry.suse.com/suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server:5.0.0
Listing 3. Skopeoskopeo copy docker://registry.suse.com/suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server:5.0.0 docker-archive:server.tar:registry.suse.com/suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server:5.0.0
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Transfer the resulting
server-image.tar
to the Server container host and load it using the following command:Listing 4. Load the server imagepodman load -i server.tar