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Workspace Instana
Categories Agent
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 4, 2026

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nstana Agent Operator: Missing Required Images, Incorrect Tag Usage, and No Offline Image Selection in Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog for Air‑Gapped OpenShift Environments

BWI reported that the Instana Agent Operator from the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog cannot be deployed successfully in air‑gapped OpenShift environments due to several concrete technical issues. Two required container images are missing from the mirrored catalog for air‑gapped usage:

• icr.io/instana/k8sensor

• containers.instana.io/instana/release/agent/static

This blocks the Operator from functioning without manual intervention. Additionally, the Operator uses the latest tag for images, which is not available in mirrored air‑gapped registries and must be replaced with immutable digests. The Operator also lacks a configuration option in the InstanaAgent CR to explicitly select between online agent images and the offline/static agent images that air‑gapped clusters require. These gaps prevent customers from using the Operator in production air‑gapped environments.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Mar 13, 2026

    This is weird as I've been able to install the agent and k8sensor with images served from my private repository and without using the "latest" tag for k8sensor


    Here my yaml describing custom resource InstanaAgent:

    apiVersion: instana.io/v1
    kind: InstanaAgent
    metadata:
      name: instana-agent
      namespace: instana-agent
    spec:
      zone:
        name: test
      cluster:
        name: kind
      agent:
        image:
          # Reference to a static agent image
          name: localhost:5001/instana/release/agent/static
          tag: 1.314.4
          pullSecrets:
            - name: local-registry-image-pull-secret
        key: <redacted>
        endpointHost: <redacted>
        endpointPort: "443"
        env: {}
        configuration_yaml: |
          # You can leave this empty, or use this to configure your instana agent.
          # See https://docs.instana.io/setup_and_manage/host_agent/on/kubernetes/
      k8s_sensor:
        image:
          # Reference to k8sensor
          name: localhost:5001/instana/k8sensor
    			# Pinned version instead of 'latest'
          tag: 6d1be64

    Hope this helps, good luck!

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