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Air gapped cloud on OpenStack: how Atmosphere's digest-pinned release manifests move a release across the boundary, and what the manifest leaves out.
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Air gapped cloud on OpenStack: how Atmosphere's digest-pinned release manifests move a release across the boundary, and what the manifest leaves out.
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