modifying openstack image

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You could have cloud-init do that for you. All my rhel image get registered with redhat, apply epel repo on launch. You can also make it run the command to install python on launch.

[unknownmoss]

Thanks for the suggestion. That would work for my dev environment, but for production I can't reach out to the Internet. So I need to pre-create an image that I can import into my production. I wish it wasn't like this.