Reliance on on-cluster registry for disconnected deployments.

[harshad16]

Reliance on on-cluster registry for disconnected deployments.

In disconnected RHODS deployments, customers will have to mirror all their images to their mirror registry.

For the notebooks, we also require the cluster to have its own on-board registry. This creates more work and effort, and could probably be alleviated if we would let the customer use their mirror as the only registry needed.

Prerequisites (if any, like setup, operators/versions):

OCP 4.12

Steps to Reproduce

Deploy an OCP 4.12. Disable the internal registry with operator set as "Removed" or in platforms documented in https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/registry/configuring-registry-operator.html#registry-removed_configuring-registry-operator
Deploy RHODS through OLM
Try to instanciate a jupyter notebook with the default images
Actual results:
Deployment get stuck at 96% because image cannot be stored in the local registry.

JIRA: RHODS 8481

[harshad16]

The solution suggested and accepted to switch from referencePolicy local to source
so this solves the issue of pulling in images.

[harshad16]

The solution is merged in.
closing this issue.