All my infrastructure build materials are run against a VM built from Debian netinst. The benefit of this is that I won't be dependent upon some happy default i

All my infrastructure build materials are run against a VM built from Debian netinst. The benefit of this is that I won't be dependent upon some happy default in the Debian full install that may disappear or change at a later date. The dependency stack is fully exposed all the way down to the bare OS. If that sounds like more work, that's because it is, but the next time something breaks, it's more immediately obvious that a an underlying package has changed.