diff --git a/roles/packages/tasks/centos-dracut.yml b/roles/packages/tasks/centos-dracut.yml
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+---
+# The dracut patch is an issue uniquely bound to the fact that I'm using several
+# old-as-shit hardware RAID cards. Specifically the Dell PERC H200 and the Dell PERC
+# H310, both of which had their hardware drivers dropped in Cent8 (despite the drivers
+# being included in the upstream fedora kernel, but whatever). OS installation and the
+# process in this set of tasks is based off of this blog post:
+# https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=71862#p302447
+#
+# TODO: Host the RPMs locally. The internet may never forget, but it's also never there
+# when you need it
+
+- name: Determine dracut version
+  shell:
+    cmd: rpm -qa | grep dracut-[0-9]
+    warn: false
+  register: dracut_version_check
+
+- name: Install patched version of dracut
+  when: dracut_version_check.stdout != "dracut-049-13.git20190614.p1.el8_0.elrepo.x86_64"
+  block:
+    - name: Create temporary download directory
+      file:
+        path: /tmp/dracut-patch
+        state: directory
+
+    - name: Download patched dracut tool RPMs
+      get_url:
+        url: "{{ item.source }}"
+        dest: /tmp/dracut-patch/{{ item.dest }}
+      loop:
+        - source: http://elrepo.org/people/akemi/testing/el8/dracut/dracut-049-13.git20190614.p1.el8_0.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
+          dest: dracut.rpm
+        - source: http://elrepo.org/people/akemi/testing/el8/dracut/dracut-caps-049-13.git20190614.p1.el8_0.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
+          dest: dracut-caps.rpm
+        - source: http://elrepo.org/people/akemi/testing/el8/dracut/dracut-config-generic-049-13.git20190614.p1.el8_0.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
+          dest: dracut-config-generic.rpm
+        - source: http://elrepo.org/people/akemi/testing/el8/dracut/dracut-config-rescue-049-13.git20190614.p1.el8_0.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
+          dest: dracut-config-rescue.rpm
+        - source: http://elrepo.org/people/akemi/testing/el8/dracut/dracut-live-049-13.git20190614.p1.el8_0.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
+          dest: dracut-live.rpm
+        - source: http://elrepo.org/people/akemi/testing/el8/dracut/dracut-network-049-13.git20190614.p1.el8_0.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
+          dest: dracut-network.rpm
+        - source: http://elrepo.org/people/akemi/testing/el8/dracut/dracut-squash-049-13.git20190614.p1.el8_0.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
+          dest: dracut-squash.rpm
+        - source: http://elrepo.org/people/akemi/testing/el8/dracut/dracut-tools-049-13.git20190614.p1.el8_0.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
+          dest: dracut-tools.rpm
+
+    - name: Install patched dracut toolchain
+      become: true
+      dnf:
+        state: latest
+        name:
+          - /tmp/dracut-patch/dracut.rpm
+          - /tmp/dracut-patch/dracut-caps.rpm
+          - /tmp/dracut-patch/dracut-config-generic.rpm
+          - /tmp/dracut-patch/dracut-config-rescue.rpm
+          - /tmp/dracut-patch/dracut-live.rpm
+          - /tmp/dracut-patch/dracut-network.rpm
+          - /tmp/dracut-patch/dracut-squash.rpm
+          - /tmp/dracut-patch/dracut-tools.rpm
+
+    - name: Remove temporary download directory
+      file:
+        path: /tmp/dracut-patch
+        state: absent
diff --git a/roles/packages/tasks/centos-repos.yml b/roles/packages/tasks/centos-repos.yml
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+---
+- name: Enable Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
+  become: true
+  dnf:
+    state: latest
+    name: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
+
+- name: Enable the power tools repository
+  become: true
+  lineinfile:
+    path: /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-PowerTools.repo
+    regexp: "enabled=(0|1)"
+    line: "enabled=1"
diff --git a/roles/packages/tasks/clean.yml b/roles/packages/tasks/clean.yml
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+---
+- name: Clean DNF cache
+  become: true
+  when: ansible_distribution == "Fedora" or ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
+  shell:
+    cmd: dnf clean all
+    warn: false
diff --git a/roles/packages/tasks/main.yml b/roles/packages/tasks/main.yml
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+---
+- import_tasks: centos-repos.yml
+  when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
+
+- import_tasks: clean.yml
+  when: clean | default(false) == true
+
+- import_tasks: update.yml
+  when: update | default(false) == true
+
+- name: Install packages on Fedora
+  become: true
+  when: ansible_distribution == "Fedora"
+  dnf:
+    state: latest
+    name: "{{ packages_global + packages_fedora }}"
+
+- name: Install packages on CentOS
+  become: true
+  when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
+  dnf:
+    state: latest
+    name: "{{ packages_global + packages_centos }}"
diff --git a/roles/packages/tasks/update.yml b/roles/packages/tasks/update.yml
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+---
+- import_tasks: centos-dracut.yml
+  when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
+
+- name: Upgrade Fedora and CentOS packages
+  when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS" or ansible_distribution == "Fedora"
+  become: true
+  dnf:
+    state: latest
+    name: "*"
+    exclude: "{{ ','.join(exclude | default(['kernel*'])) }}"
+
+# - name: Upgrade APT packages
+#   when: ansible_distribution == "Debian" or ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
+#   become: true
+#   apt:
diff --git a/roles/packages/vars/main.yml b/roles/packages/vars/main.yml
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+---
+packages_global:
+  - automake
+  - cmake
+  - curl
+  - gcc
+  - gcc-c++
+  - git
+  - make
+  - nano
+  - openssl-devel
+  - systemd-devel
+  - unzip
+  - vim
+  - vim-minimal
+
+packages_fedora:
+  - libselinux-python
+  - git-lfs
+  - readline-devel
+  - policycoreutils-python
+  - python-devel
+  - python-virtualenv
+  - python3-devel
+
+packages_centos:
+  - bind-utils
+  - bash-completion
+  - nc
+  - nfs-utils
+  - python3
+  - python3-pip
+  - python3-setuptools
+  - python3-virtualenv
+  - wget