Air Gap Installation

Simplyblock can be installed in an air-gapped environment, however, the necessary images have to be downloaded to install and run the control plane, the storage nodes, and the Kubernetes CSI driver. In addition, for Kubernetes deployments, you want to download or clone the simplyblock helm repository which contains the helm charts for Kubernetes-based storage and caching nodes, as well as the Kubernetes CSI driver.

For an air-gapped installation, we recommend an air-gapped container repository installation. Tools such as JFrog Artifactory or Sonatype Nexus helps with the setup and management of container images in air-gapped environments.

The general installation instructions are similar to non-air-gapped installations, with the need to update the container download locations to point to your local container repository.

Learn more about the deployment options:

• Deploy into Kubernetes
• Deploy on Bare Metal (or virtualized) Linux
• Deploy on AWS EC2