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Building the ST appliance

The basic plan would be to have a virtual machine with a bare-bones OS installation.  This would get updated as needed for OS patches but for the most part would be fairly static.

When a new build of ST was ready to be deployed, we make a copy of the base OS VM, and in the clone install the new ST version, update anything that needed to be changed and deploy this updated version.

This would give us a consistant starting point for all the ST installations and also save time by not having to reinstall the OS each time we did a new distribution.More to come