Air-gapped installation
The platform works fully without internet access. What changes is how images and models arrive, and which integrations remain available.
Images
Saptiva AI delivers the version's images in a signed package (image files plus checksums). The operator loads them into the internal registry; the installation verifies that each image matches its checksum before using it.
Models
Models are delivered on physical media or by internal transfer and are loaded into the catalog storage. The Studio model catalog shows them as downloaded.
Integrations
| Integration | Without internet |
|---|---|
| External provider models | Not available. Credentials for those providers are not offered. |
| Not available. | |
| Web search as an agent tool | Not available. |
| S3 storage | Available against an internal S3 service. |
| MCP servers | Available if they are inside the network. |
| SSO | Available if the identity provider is reachable from the cluster. |
The platform is configured to fail explicitly if something tries to reach out: there are no silent connections to public services. Saptiva AI keeps an inventory of all possible external destinations and their status in each installation.
Upgrades
Each upgrade arrives as a new image package and a version change in the deployment repository. See Upgrade and backup.