Pitfalls, brick walls, and struggles I faced while navigating the seas of Internet dependent software in an air-gapped environment. This discussion will be from the perspective of a new member of the Chef community, Sandia National Laboratories. Our team has been researching and adopting DevOps techniques to automate our workflows and deliverables. Being one of the architects tasked with exploring Chef as a solution to configuration management, I have had the pleasure to design some of our development process and architecture. This process is continually evolving to suit our specific needs. All of our products are deployed to air-gapped production environments. We are working toward not only using Chef to build our environments but also delivering our environments as fully functional Chef organizations to ensure our contracted work is predictable after delivery.