The red hat operator catalog is build, tested and signed by ART team. During these processes all tests for vulnerabilities are performed so it is possible to guarantee that the operator catalog is safe for customers to use.

Rebuilding catalogs in oc-mirror is one thing that should be avoided because of some reasons:

• no security tests are performed so it is not possible to guarantee that the catalog is safe

• the operator catalog cache generated by oc-mirror can differ from the one expected from OLM in the cluster and it will break the operator catalog on the cluster

It would be preferred if oc-mirror could generate some kind of resource (configmap for example) with the list of operators successfully mirrored to the target cluster so OLM could enable only these operators.

Currently in the webconsole it is possible to use filters to show only operators by category, is it possible to use the same strategy?