Red Hat Offline Knowledge Portal: All the Docs, Air-Gapped, On Your Laptop

Table of Contents Table of Contents What it actually is Why it matters A word on the marketing gap Practical onboarding Closing thoughts Further reading The entire Red Hat documentation site and the full Knowledgebase fit into a single OCI container that updates weekly, runs locally with a web UI and Solr search, and is included in every RHEL subscription that bundles Red Hat Satellite. I have it on my laptop. I use it daily. Almost nobody I talk to knows it exists. That paragraph is the mission statement of this post. The product is called the Red Hat Offline Knowledge Portal, RHOKP for short, and it is one of those quiet, slightly-too-modest pieces of software that a customer-facing engineer like me runs into, falls in love with, and then realises that most of the people who would benefit from it have never been told it is there. This post is my attempt to help with that. What it actually is RHOKP is a single container image, published on registry.redhat.io, that contains a…