My company works on a project were we ship an appliance (a CentOS VM) that runs several services.
Currently this appliance is regenerated every time "manually" but I'd like to improve the process and make it less error prone by automating most of it.
Is it possible to automate the creation of a Virtual Machine (possibly, using VMWare) ? If so, to what extent can this automation go and what tools would I have to use to do that ?