I should add a note of thanks to ^AT^ on the #ubuntu-server channel who first pointed out the issue with the pre-generated machine-id, which then led me to investigate what else was not being reset by the new image build process.
I should add a note of thanks to ^AT^ on the #ubuntu-server channel who first pointed out the issue with the pre-generated machine-id, which then led me to investigate what else was not being reset by the new image build process.