Since June 2022 the Red Hat OpenShift operator index images (redhat/redhat/operator-index) have been served from registry.redhat.io using Quay.io as the backend. OpenShift itself already needs access to the Quay.io registry and CDN hosts as explained in its installation instructions, and so this change required no action from customers at that time.
We are extending this to all Red Hat container images. This allows customers to benefit from the high availability of the Quay.io registry while simplifying the way Red Hat delivers container images and paving the way for future enhancements.
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