Make Airgap Great Again

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Working in an air-gap datacenter is like working in an isolated lighthouse. You are cut off from everything due to security policies. No yum install or update, and your breakfast lunch and dinner are all on cup noodles. So how are you going to survive?

The answer is for the servers to be self sufficient in packages. Before your air-gapped servers are setup and ready to be hardened in the datacenter, you should download…