A work in progress, for now.
This basically removes commonly installed apps for OpenVZ/KVM images, then installs commonly used tools, iptables, snmp, and a few other bits.
wget --no-check-certificate -qO- https://github.com/Munzy/recipes/raw/master/books/debian/common-install.sh | bash
These are some common recipes I use for when I am doing server stuff. They might be useful to you as well.
wget --no-check-certificate -qO- https://github.com/Munzy/recipes/raw/master/recipes/debian/snmpd-install-prompt.sh | bash
wget --no-check-certificate -qO- https://github.com/Munzy/recipes/raw/master/recipes/debian/snmpd-install.sh | bash
wget --no-check-certificate -qO- https://github.com/Munzy/recipes/raw/master/recipes/debian/unattended-upgrades.sh | bash
wget --no-check-certificate -qO- https://github.com/Munzy/recipes/raw/master/recipes/debian/docker.sh | bash