Air-gapped setup#

The Nokia Event-Driven Automation platform can be installed in an air-gapped¹ environment. This section describes the elements of the air-gapped setup and the steps required to set it up.

If the installation is not targeting an air-gapped environment, proceed to Deploying EDA.

Two environments will be discussed and used in an air-gapped installation:

Public Environment

This environment has Internet access and is also commonly referred to as the Connected Environment. You use a system with Internet access to download all the necessary assets and tools for the air-gapped installation.

Air-gapped Environment

This environment does not have Internet access and is also commonly referred to as the Disconnected Environment. It is the environment in which Nokia EDA platform is deployed.

The air-gapped installation process involves the following steps:

1. Download the necessary assets and tools (EDA core components and applications, tools and resources) for the air-gapped installation from the Internet.
2. Transfer the downloaded assets from the public environment to the air-gapped environment. You can do this by copying the downloaded assets to the Installer host in the air-gapped environment, or by transferring the entire Installer host from the public environment to the air-gapped environment.
3. Choose the hosting method for the downloaded assets and tools:
   1. Use the unified hosting services provided by the EDA Assets VM. The Assets VM provides a container registry, Git server, and web server in a single VM package².
   2. Reuse existing hosting services in the air-gapped environment.
   3. Combine both approaches.
4. Upload the downloaded assets and tools to the hosting services.

5. Deploy the EDA platform in the air-gapped environment.

The container images, Git repositories, and file artifacts used by the EDA platform are grouped into asset bundles, which are described in the Asset bundles section.

Asset bundles