In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to set up a disconnected installation of OpenShift, allowing you to deploy and manage OpenShift clusters in environments without direct internet access. You'll begin by downloading the necessary OpenShift components on a connected host, transferring them to a disconnected host, and proceeding with installing OpenShift on bare metal servers using the agent-based installer. By the end of this lab, you'll have a fully functional, disconnected OpenShift cluster. This lab is ideal for users working in secure or isolated environments where external connectivity is restricted or non-existent.

Virtual CMTS (vCMTS) revolutionizes bandwidth management by virtualizing DOCSIS processing on x86 servers, paving the way for DOCSIS 4.0. Intel's Xeon 6 processors enhance encryption efficiency, while Red Hat's OpenShift Cloud Platform unifies workload management. This lab explores a deployment of vCMTS on OpenShift, showcasing performance insights via Grafana.