Virtual machine bootstrap agent

A system comprising:

• an image virtual machine;
• a first user virtual machine configured to execute a first startup service to install a first plurality of packages;
• and
• a cloud computing service configured to generate the first user virtual machine from the image virtual machine and a first template comprising a first uniform resource locator (URL) of a bootstrap script by:
• downloading, in the first user virtual machine and from the first URL, the bootstrap script, and
• executing the bootstrap script to install a bootstrap agent as the first startup service in the first user virtual machine, wherein the cloud computing service limits execution of the bootstrap script in the first user virtual machine to generating the first user virtual machine, the bootstrap script comprising instructions to install the bootstrap agent.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a computer processor, perform:

• downloading, by a first user virtual machine and from a first uniform resource locator (URL), a bootstrap script,
• wherein the first user virtual machine is generated by a cloud computing service from an image virtual machine and a first template comprising the first URL, and
• wherein the cloud computing service limits execution of the bootstrap script to generating the first user virtual machine, the bootstrap script comprising instructions to install the bootstrap agent;
• executing, by the first user virtual machine, the bootstrap script to install a bootstrap agent as a first startup service;
• and
• executing, by the first user virtual machine, the first startup service to install a first plurality of packages.