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• Air-gapped environments pose unique challenges for delivering applications in K8s
• Declarative state is important for reproducing environments over and over
• Redundancy is necessary to accommodate bugs and failures
• Tools like Helm, Argo, Flux, and kubectl only address half of the problem by managing manifests and leaving the images they depend on unmanaged
• Zarf, an open-source tool, was built to extract images from manifests, charts, kustomizations, and operators and package all dependencies predictably
• Creating a registry temporarily using a rust binary and config maps was a solution to the chicken and egg problem
• The speaker's team had experience deploying K8s in various air-gapped environments, including on fighter jets and submarines