4.5.6. Obfuscating Deployment Validation Operator data

By default, when you install the Deployment Validation Operator (DVO), the name and unique identifier (UID) of a resource are included in the data that is captured and processed by the Insights Operator for OpenShift Container Platform. If you are a cluster administrator, you can configure the Insights Operator to obfuscate data from the Deployment Validation Operator (DVO). For example, you can obfuscate workload names in the archive file that is then sent to Red Hat.

To obfuscate the name of resources, you must manually set the obfuscation attribute in the insights-config ConfigMap object to include the workload_names value, as outlined in the following procedure.