A Debian GNU/Linux wheezy image is booted and modified to set its hostname based on the content of the http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/hostname metadata. The /etc/rc.local file is changed to run puppet agent –waitforcert 60 at boot time. The instance is then snapshoted and the corresponding file system reduced to a minimal size with resize2fs -M.
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