Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Catalog exclusion by labels or expressions

You can exclude catalogs by using match expressions on metadata with the NotIn or DoesNotExist operators.

The following custom resources (CRs) add an example.com/testing label to the unwanted-catalog-1 and unwanted-catalog-2 cluster catalogs:

Example cluster catalog CR

apiVersion: olm.operatorframework.io/v1
kind: ClusterCatalog
metadata:
  name: unwanted-catalog-1
  labels:
    example.com/testing: "true"
spec:
  source:
    type: Image
    image:
      ref: quay.io/example/content-management-a:latest

Example cluster catalog CR

apiVersion: olm.operatorframework.io/v1
kind: ClusterCatalog
metadata:
  name: unwanted-catalog-2
  labels:
    example.com/testing: "true"
spec:
  source:
    type: Image
    image:
      ref: quay.io/example/content-management-b:latest

The following cluster extension CR excludes selection from the unwanted-catalog-1 catalog:

Example cluster extension CR that excludes a specific catalog

apiVersion: olm.operatorframework.io/v1
kind: ClusterExtension
metadata:
  name: <example_extension>
spec:
  namespace: <example_namespace>
  serviceAccount:
    name: <example_extension>-installer
  source:
    sourceType: Catalog
    catalog:
      packageName: <example_extension>-operator
      selector:
        matchExpressions:
          - key: olm.operatorframework.io/metadata.name
            operator: NotIn
            values:
              - unwanted-catalog-1

The following cluster extension CR selects from catalogs that do not have the example.com/testing label. As a result, both unwanted-catalog-1 and unwanted-catalog-2 are excluded from catalog selection.

Example cluster extension CR that excludes catalogs with a specific label

apiVersion: olm.operatorframework.io/v1
kind: ClusterExtension
metadata:
  name: <example_extension>
spec:
  namespace: <example_namespace>
  serviceAccount:
    name: <example_extension>-installer
  source:
    sourceType: Catalog
    catalog:
      packageName: <example_extension>-operator
      selector:
        matchExpressions:
          - key: example.com/testing
            operator: DoesNotExist