[14:45] <smoser> kwadronaut, wrt your question on ssh keys 
[14:45] <smoser> you can just configure that portion off
[14:46] <smoser> just add something like this to a '*.cfg' in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/
[14:46] <smoser> http://paste.ubuntu.com/6703527/
[14:46] <smoser> and take out the '-ssh'
[14:47] <smoser> do that on "first boot" and subsequent ones wont run it.
[14:48] <smoser> you wont/wouldn't get ssh keys pulled from metadata service into your user's .ssh/authorized_keys, but thath probably isn't a huge deal for you in that case.
[14:49] <smoser> you could also use harmw's suggestion of
[14:49] <smoser> http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/examples.html#configure-instances-ssh-keys
[14:49] <smoser> and just write that stanza explicitly from the files in /etc/ssh after first boot.
[14:50] <smoser> (so each boot would just explicitly re-write them)
[17:49] <harlowja> harmw ya, i think he is, will bug him today to see how far he got
[19:43] <harmw> ok harlowja