diff --git a/kiwi/simple-build/centos-9.kiwi b/kiwi/simple-build/centos-9.kiwi
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+config.xml
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diff --git a/kiwi/simple-build/config.sh b/kiwi/simple-build/config.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+#======================================
+# Functions...
+#--------------------------------------
+test -f /.kconfig && . /.kconfig
+test -f /.profile && . /.profile
+
+#======================================
+# Greeting...
+#--------------------------------------
+echo "Configure image: [$kiwi_iname]..."
+
+#======================================
+# Setup default target, multi-user
+#--------------------------------------
+systemctl set-default multi-user.target
+
+#======================================
+# Set up the user skeleton for root user
+#--------------------------------------
+cp -a /etc/skel/* /root/
+
+#======================================
+# Force localhost for hostname
+#--------------------------------------
+echo "localhost" > /etc/hostname
+
+#======================================
+# Purge unwanted locales
+#--------------------------------------
+rm -rf /usr/share/locale/*/*/*.mo
+rm -rf /usr/share/X11/locale/*/*
+find /usr/share/i18n/charmaps -type f -not -name 'UTF-8.*' -delete
+find /usr/share/i18n/locales -type f -not -name 'en*' -delete
diff --git a/kiwi/simple-build/config.xml b/kiwi/simple-build/config.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+
+<image schemaversion="6.8" name="Simple-EL9-Appliance">
+    <description type="system">
+        <author>Neal Gompa</author>
+        <contact>ngompa@centosproject.org</contact>
+        <specification>Simple Appliance based on CentOS 9</specification>
+    </description>
+    <preferences>
+        <version>0.0.0</version>
+        <packagemanager>dnf</packagemanager>
+        <locale>en_US</locale>
+        <keytable>us</keytable>
+        <timezone>UTC</timezone>
+        <rpm-locale-filtering>true</rpm-locale-filtering>
+        <rpm-check-signatures>true</rpm-check-signatures>
+        <rpm-excludedocs>true</rpm-excludedocs>
+        <type image="tbz"/>
+    </preferences>
+    <users>
+        <!-- This should probably be something stronger and encrypted by default: https://osinside.github.io/kiwi/concept_and_workflow/users.html -->
+        <user password="linux" pwdformat="plain" home="/root" name="root" groups="root"/>
+    </users>
+    <repository type="rpm-md" alias="epel-next" sourcetype="baseurl">
+        <source path="https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/next/9/Everything/$basearch/">
+            <signing key="file:///usr/share/distribution-gpg-keys/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-9"/>
+        </source>
+    </repository>
+    <repository type="rpm-md" alias="epel" sourcetype="baseurl">
+        <source path="https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/9/Everything/$basearch/">
+            <signing key="file:///usr/share/distribution-gpg-keys/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-9"/>
+        </source>
+    </repository>
+    <repository type="rpm-md" alias="extras-common" sourcetype="baseurl">
+        <source path="http://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/extras/$basearch/extras-common/">
+            <signing key="file:///usr/share/distribution-gpg-keys/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Extras"/>
+        </source>
+    </repository>
+    <repository type="rpm-md" alias="crb" sourcetype="baseurl">
+        <source path="http://mirror.stream.centos.org/9-stream/CRB/$basearch/os/">
+            <signing key="file:///usr/share/distribution-gpg-keys/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Official"/>
+        </source>
+    </repository>
+    <repository type="rpm-md" alias="appstream" sourcetype="baseurl">
+        <source path="http://mirror.stream.centos.org/9-stream/AppStream/$basearch/os/">
+            <signing key="file:///usr/share/distribution-gpg-keys/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Official"/>
+        </source>
+    </repository>
+    <repository type="rpm-md" alias="baseos" sourcetype="baseurl">
+        <source path="http://mirror.stream.centos.org/9-stream/BaseOS/$basearch/os/">
+            <signing key="file:///usr/share/distribution-gpg-keys/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Official"/>
+        </source>
+    </repository>
+    <packages type="image">
+        <package name="epel-release"/>
+        <package name="kiwi"/>
+    </packages>
+    <packages type="bootstrap">
+        <package name="filesystem"/>
+        <package name="centos-stream-release"/>
+        <package name="passwd"/>
+        <package name="shadow-utils"/>
+        <package name="glibc-langpack-en"/>
+        <package name="yum"/>
+        <package name="yum-utils"/>
+        <package name="systemd"/>
+        <package name="findutils"/>
+        <package name="sed"/>
+        <package name="basesystem"/>
+    </packages>
+</image>
diff --git a/kiwi/simple-build/root/etc/sysconfig/firstboot b/kiwi/simple-build/root/etc/sysconfig/firstboot
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+RUN_FIRSTBOOT=NO