SUSE AI 1.0
- WHAT?
This document provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for the SUSE AI air-gapped deployment.
- WHY?
To help users successfully complete the air-gapped deployment process.
- EFFORT
Less than one hour of reading and an advanced knowledge of Linux deployment.
- GOAL
To learn enough information to deploy SUSE AI in both testing and production air-gapped environments.
Publication Date: 2026-04-02
- 1 Air-gapped environments
- 2 Installation overview
- 3 Installing the Linux and Kubernetes distribution
- 4 Preparing the cluster for AI Library
- 4.1 Installing SUSE Rancher Prime on a Kubernetes cluster in air-gapped environments
- 4.2 Installing the NVIDIA GPU Operator on the SUSE Rancher Prime: RKE2 cluster
- 4.3 Registering existing clusters
- 4.4 Assigning GPU nodes to applications
- 4.5 Installing SUSE Security
- 4.6 Setting up SUSE Observability for SUSE AI
- 5 Installing applications from AI Library
- Glossary
- A Copyright
- B GNU Free Documentation License
- B1 0. PREAMBLE
- B2 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
- B3 2. VERBATIM COPYING
- B4 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
- B5 4. MODIFICATIONS
- B6 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
- B7 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
- B8 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
- B9 8. TRANSLATION
- B10 9. TERMINATION
- B11 1. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
- B12 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
List of Figures
- 1.1 General schema of an air-gapped environment
- 2.1 SUSE AI air-gapped installation process
- 3.1 Language, keyboard and product selection
- 3.2 License agreement
- 3.3 Network settings
- 3.4 Registration
- 3.5 Extension and module selection
- 3.6 Add-on product
- 3.7 System role
- 3.8 Suggested partitioning
- 3.9 Clock and time zone
- 3.10 Local user creation
- 3.11 Password for the system administrator
root - 3.12 Installation settings
- 3.13 Confirm installation
- 3.14 Performing the installation
- 4.1 High-level overview of the SUSE Observability setup
- 4.2 Separate clusters for SUSE AI and SUSE Observability
- 4.3 New GenAI Observability menu item
- 5.1 Milvus page in the SUSE Application Collection
List of Tables
List of Examples