My wife used to be involved with data center provisioning for what the NRO called "agency unique equipment." This was a facility and a contract that did central

My wife used to be involved with data center provisioning for what the NRO called "agency unique equipment." This was a facility and a contract that did centralized infrastructure procurement, installation, and tier 1-2 support for any NRO workloads that needed to use hardware not available in Amazon's classified GovCloud enclaves. Full workflow was customer generated and provided the initial build spec, her program (called "Palinode") validate this spec, made the purchase, received equipment from the vendor, assembled it in test racks at a contractor facility, performed a physical inspection and validation of the build, then shipped it to the production data center, installed it, and performed final validation on-site, usually with a customer witness. For that, they used a suite of custom tools that matched the functionality your linked toolkit seems to be providing, and also had management and alerting tools all developed in-house. I'd say the biggest pain points were not really something any third-party or software provider could alleviate, and that was the locked down firmware and NDA agreements with the network appliance vendors. They experienced so many bizarre appliance failure modes that could not even be debugged except with chip-level log access that required vendor reps to come on-site just to be able to read them. And there was a major fire-drill level issue with defective memory they couldn't even disclose to their customers because of the vendor NDA, and it took a really long time to address it. I was honestly pretty surprised by that, as the vendor is a publicly traded enormous company that you think would need to legally disclose product defects like this in components that could potentially power safety-critical devices, but for whatever reason, that wasn't the case, and remediation was seriously slowed down by all the need for secrecy. The only thing I can see changing this is competition, but it largely doesn't exist at the chip level or for specialized hardware. Many components and appliances only have two or three vendors, and the levels of compliance you have to go through to host classified data combined with patent law make it nearly undisruptable as an industry.