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I want to install some packages and configure Ubuntu after Ubuntu is installed on my laptop.

I have found that we can use .sh files to create such things. But I think it is not very robust. For example, if something happens during installation and I ran the .sh file again, it will start things from the beginning. Also if I want to append multiple lines to the ~/.bashrc file, it is not very convenient.

I have found Docker as a potential solution but it is not made to set up your local environment.

Is there a robust and systematic way of doing it?

This could be also useful if I am spinning a VM on Cloud platform and want to have few things installed/configured.

Shiv Krishna Jaiswal
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Look up cloud-init, which has been the way to customize Ubuntu VMs and containers for years.

It also works on most newer Ubuntu bare-metal installers.

user535733
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