There is a difference between image reference by Operator and CLI:

Images from pods deployed by the operator use digests (e.g. registry.redhat.io/service-interconnect/skupper-config-sync-rhel9@sha256:9a537331e0f512c14f4dfb7b111d70b0d38d8a7dba5c93695be264294f415692)

Red Hat Service Interconnect CLI uses version tags:

• Login with oc and go to the RHSI namespace
• Run skupper init
• The image in pods uses a version tag (e.g. registry.redhat.io/service-interconnect/skupper-config-sync-rhel9:1.5.3)

When users deploy RHSI for testing, validation or configuration via CLI, they have different experience than when the RHSI is deployed by the operator (as usually is in production).

This Jira is opened to consider aligning both types of deployments (as operator typically uses digests, can CLI also use them by default?)