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  2. EAPDOC-1836

Following "JBoss EAP on OpenShift" docs instructions causes issues (RH registry auth)

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      The "JBoss EAP on OpenShift Container Platform", section "2.3. Configure authentication to the Red Hat Container Registry" instructs users to:

      1. "create an authentication token using a registry service account",
      2. "download the YAML file containing the OpenShift secret for the token",
      3. "create the authentication token secret for your OpenShift project" via oc create -f 1234567_myserviceaccount-secret.yaml
      4. "configure the secret for your OpenShift project" via

      oc secrets link default 1234567-myserviceaccount-pull-secret --for=pull
      oc secrets link builder 1234567-myserviceaccount-pull-secret --for=pull
      

      EAP 8: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/8-beta/html/using_jboss_eap_on_openshift_container_platform/assembly_building-and-running-jboss-eap-applicationson-openshift-container-platform_default#proc_configuring-registry-authentication_assembly_building-and-running-jboss-eap-applicationson-openshift-container-platform
      EAP 7.4: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_jboss_enterprise_application_platform/7.4/html-single/getting_started_with_jboss_eap_for_openshift_container_platform/index#container_registry_authentication

      These instructions were written in times of OCP 3.11, where this was necessary. In OCP 4.x this is no longer necessary, the access to RH Registry is available by default. However the main issue here is that due to a bug in OCP, following these instructions on OCP 4.x makes it impossible do pull images from any registry at all (even from the internal OpenShift registry), which makes the namespace largely unusable. Definitely user will not be able to follow any of our quickstarts and build or deploy any EAP applications.

      The OCP bug for this is OCPBUGS-23245, you can check it for more details about what exactly breaks. Unfortunately it has been rated with low priority so it doesn't seem it will be fixed very soon.

      The documentation should be modified to the effect that the steps mentioned above are only valid for OCP 3.x and should not be used on OCP 4.x.

      These changes should be done for all EAP versions - 7.4, 8.0, XP4/5.

              rhn-support-rchettri Rahuul Chettri
              thofman Tomas Hofman
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