diff --git a/api-daemon/provisioner/examples/script/3-debootstrap.py b/api-daemon/provisioner/examples/script/3-debootstrap.py
index f344541b..c23945ba 100644
--- a/api-daemon/provisioner/examples/script/3-debootstrap.py
+++ b/api-daemon/provisioner/examples/script/3-debootstrap.py
@@ -485,6 +485,7 @@ class VMBuilderScript(VMBuilder):
                 "acpid",
                 "acpi-support-base",
                 "wget",
+                "isc-dhcp-server",  # required for cloud-init on Debian 13+ where this is no longer standard
             ]
 
         # We need to know our root disk for later GRUB-ing