SeedImage pod behind proxy

[shallier-cs]

Hey everyone 👋

I am running Rancher with the Elemental extension in an environment that is behind a corporate HTTP proxy.
Rancher itself works fine, I installed it via Helm and set the proxy using --set proxy=... .

But when I try to create a SeedImage from the Rancher UI, the "media-image-reg" pod that gets created to build the ISO/RAW fails to pull the base image from registry.suse.com.

It just times out, and when I check the pod's environment, there are no HTTP_PROXY / HTTPS_PROXY / NO_PROXY vars set at all.
So it is trying to go out directly instead of using the proxy.

What I have tried :

• Patching the elemental operator deployment to add proxy env vars → no effect.
• Adding /etc/sysconfig/proxy in the SeedImage and MachineRegistration → also no effect (makes sense, that is for the OS being installed, not the builder pod).
• There is also no Job created, just a single media-image-reg pod that tries to pull the image directly.

Anyone else running Elemental behind a proxy hit the same problem ?

Thank you !

Steven