In this blog post, I explain how you can use Red Hat Offline Knowledge Portal to provide access to Red Hat documentation in environments with limited or no connectivity to the internet.The Red Hat Offline Knowledge Portal is a secure offline version of Red Hat's proprietary knowledge content for our products. It's a pocket library of our award-winning knowledgebase, product documentation, CVEs, errata, and more that's light enough to run at the edge. Offline Knowledge Portal is useful anywhere Red Hat products are used where connectivity is limited, from intentionally disconnected secure sites to situations with planned intervals of low or no bandwidth. As a single small container image, it is easy to install and use, and is compatible with Red Hat OpenShift, Podman, or any OCI-compliant container runtime.To get access to all the information included in the Offline Knowledge Portal, you need a Red Hat Satellite subscription to generate an access key.However, even without a Satellite subscription, the Offline Knowledge Portal provides value to all Red Hat customers, as it provides access to the product documentation, security data API documentation, and product life cycle information, without any access key. All you need to do is:1. Log inLogin to registry.redhat.io.2. Get the imageUse podman to get the image:podman pull registry.redhat.io/offline-knowledge-portal/rhokp-rhel9:latest3. Transfer the image and runNext, transfer the image to the host where you want to run the container. To run it, use podman:podman run –rm –detach -p 8080:8080 registry.redhat.io/offline-knowledge-portal/rhokp-rhel9:latestAccess the Offline Knowledge Portal from your browser at http://localhost:8080.
Provide access to Red Hat documentation in environments with limited connectivity
Learn how to access Red Hat's proprietary knowledge content offline with the Red Hat Offline Knowledge Portal. This lightweight container image is easy to install and use, and provides access to product documentation, security data API documentation, and product life cycle information, even without a Red Hat Satellite subscription. Get the image, transfer it, and run it on your host to access the Offline Knowledge Portal from your browser.







