IPS Repositories
The IPS repository contains the software packages to be installed. You can also add to the repository first-boot scripts that complete client configuration at the completion of AI.
As a best practice, create repositories locally at your site. Local repositories provide advantages such as security as well as faster connectivity, which in turn makes AI operations efficient. The repository can be on the same system as the AI server or on another system on the local network.
This document does not discuss publishers and repositories. These are discussed in detail in the following guides:
Unified archives are alternatives to packages in IPS repositories. Make sure that these unified archives are network accessible. To work with unified archives, see Using Unified Archives for System Recovery and Cloning in Oracle Solaris 11.4.