Airgapped clusters

When installing Portworx in Kubernetes, a number of docker images are fetched from registries on the internet.

This topic explains how to load these images onto your nodes when they don’t have access to the standard registries on the internet.

Step 1: Fetching Portworx images

Export your Kubernetes version
```
export KBVER=$(kubectl version --short | awk -Fv '/Server Version: / {print $3}')
```
If the current node doesn’t have kubectl access, directly set the variable using export KBVER=1.11.2

Pull all Portworx images

PX_IMGS="$(curl -fsSL "https://install.portworx.com/2.1/?kbver=$KBVER&type=oci&lh=true&ctl=true&stork=true" | awk '/image: /{print $2}' | sort -u)"
PX_IMGS="$PX_IMGS portworx/talisman:latest portworx/px-node-wiper:2.0.2.1"
PX_ENT=$(echo "$PX_IMGS" | sed 's|^portworx/oci-monitor:|portworx/px-enterprise:|p;d')

echo $PX_IMGS $PX_ENT | xargs -n1 docker pull

(Optional) Copy images to airgapped node

If none of your cluster nodes have internet access, you will first need to copy over the images to one of the nodes using a tarball. Below command uses ssh to load the images on a node called intranet-host. Change the hostname as per your environment.
```
docker save $PX_IMGS $PX_ENT | ssh intranet-host docker load
```

Step 2: Loading Portworx images on your nodes

If you have nodes which have access to a private registry, follow Step 2a: Push to local registry server, accessible by air-gapped nodes.

Otherwise, follow Step 2b: Push directly to nodes using tarball.

Step 2a: Push to local registry server, accessible by air-gapped nodes

Export your registry location:
```
export REGISTRY=myregistry.net:5443
```
The registry location above can be a registry and it’s port (e.g myregistry.net:5443) or it could include your own repository in the registry (e.g myregistry.net:5443/px-images).

Push images to the above registry:

# Trim trailing slashes:
REGISTRY=${REGISTRY%/}
# re-tag and push into custom/local registry defined previously
# Check if using custom registry+repository (e.g. `REGISTRY=myregistry.net:5443/px-images`)
# or just the registry (e.g. `REGISTRY=myregistry.net:5443`)
echo $REGISTRY | grep -q /
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    # registry + repo are used -- we'll strip original image repositories
    for i in $PX_IMGS $PX_ENT; do tg="$REGISTRY/$(basename $i)" ; docker pull $i; docker tag $i $tg ; docker push $tg ; done
else
    # only registry used -- we'll keep original image repositories
    for i in $PX_IMGS $PX_ENT; do tg="$REGISTRY/$i" ; docker pull $i; docker tag $i $tg ; docker push $tg ; done
fi

Now that you have the images in your registry, continue with Step 3: Installing Portworx.

Since you are using your own custom registry, ensure that you specify it in the spec generator in Registry And Image Settings -> Custom Container Registry Location.

Step 2b: Push directly to nodes using tarball

Below steps save all Portworx images into a tarball after which they can be loaded onto nodes individually.

Save all Portworx images into a tarball called px-offline.tar.
```
docker save -o px-offline.tar $PX_IMGS $PX_ENT
```
Load images from tarball

You can load all images from the tarball on a node using docker load command. Below command uses ssh on nodes node1, node2 and node3 to copy the tarball and load it. Change the node names as per your environment.
```
for no in node1 node2 node3; do
    cat px-offline.tar | ssh $no docker load
done
```

When using this method, specify Image Pull Policy as IfNotPresent on the “Registry and Image Settings” page when generating the Portworx spec.

Step 3: Installing Portworx

Once you have loaded Portworx images into your registry or nodes, continue with standard installation steps.