Downloading and uploading Model Repositories for an air-gapped environment

An air-gapped environment is physically isolated from the internet and external networks, preventing the transmission or reception of data online. As a result, enabling the download of Model Repositories in such environments requires the Administrator to perform additional steps.

To use Models from NVIDIA NGC and Hugging Face, the Administrator must download Model artifacts from these sources on specially networked hosts. The artifacts must then be manually transferred, uploaded to the object storage utilized by the Cloudera AI Registry and Cloudera AI Inference service. Following that, the available Models are ready to be used. This solution is an alternative to accessing Model Hub in an air-gapped environment.