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Minimum installation requirements are:
Install a VM with RHEL/CentOS 7 .9 or RHEL/Rocky Linux 8 (or the previous version) and a “Minimal Server” profile.
Run
yum
to resolve dependencies for a package.RHEL/CentOS 7 or RHEL/Rocky Linux 8 server with Internet access and some disk space to pull the repo files.
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Swarm 15.x bundle includes podman offline repo. Refer to step 3 until step 7 of Online SCS Installation https://perifery.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/public/pages/3042345098 to create a local repo for podman.
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Create an Offline Pause Container
Install Podman on RHEL/CentOS 7 or RHEL/Rocky Linux 8.
Code Block yum -y install podman
Pull the Pause Container.
Create a new pod to automatically pull the registry.k8s.io/pause:3.2 image.
Code Block language bash podman pod create fc299d05422a55e46774aa06a66bc853109aeb4b1d7078f81f9ffa4eef26c8e0
List the pulled images.
Code Block language bash podman images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE registry.k8s.io/pause 3.2 80d28bedfe5d 22 months ago 688 kB
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