SUSE Manager Proxy Air-gapped Deployment

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.

2. Deploy with Virtual Machine

The recommended installation method is using the provided SUSE Manager Virtual Machine Image option, since all the needed tools and container images are pre-loaded and will work out of the box.

For more information about installing SUSE Manager Proxy Virtual Machine, see Deploy Proxy as a Virtual Machine.

To upgrade SUSE Manager Proxy, users should follow the procedures defined in Proxy Upgrade.

3. Deploy SUSE Manager on SLE Micro

SUSE Manager also provides all the needed container images in RPM’s that can be installed on the system.

Procedure: Install SUSE Manager on SLE Micro in Air-gapped

  1. Install SLE Micro.

  2. Bootstrap the Proxy Host OS as a Client on SUSE Manager Server.

  3. Update the system.

  4. Install tools packages and image packages (replace $ARCH$ with the correct architecture)

    transactional-update pkg install mgrpxy* mgrctl* suse-manager-5.0-$ARCH$-proxy-*

  5. Reboot.

  6. Deploy SUSE Manager with mgrpxy.

For more detailed information about installing SUSE Manager Proxy on SLE Micro, see Deploy Proxy as a Virtual Machine.

To upgrade SUSE Manager Proxy, users should follow the procedures defined in Proxy Upgrade.