Overview

Reference RFE-7425

Currently oc-mirror v2 will populate the cache registry during disk to mirror operations before validating that the registry credentials, DNS name, and SSL certificates are valid. For large mirror operations, populating the cache registry can take over an hour. This means that if a customer does something like, forgets to add the pull secret CLI flag, mistypes the registry hostname or port, or the SSL certificate are not working, they must wait over an hour for an error. Once the customer resolves the issue, the cache registry will be repopulated, even if the directory was never removed, which will again take over an hour. The result is that simple problems with the auth, cert, or DNS options can take hours to fix if the user makes 1 or more mistakes.