[20:27] <jetole> Hey guys. I have a app that I am using to provision instances and it's passing a user password to the instances via http://169.254.169.254/openstack/latest/meta_data.json
[20:28] <jetole> Can I use cloud-init to set the user password based on this data? Also I forgot to mention it has other variables all in json 
[20:54] <smoser> jetole, use ssh keys , or use cloud-config to set password. 
[20:54] <jetole> smoser: neither are a option in this case. It's a closed source app and it passes the data via a json tag in http://169.254.169.254/openstack/latest/meta_data.json
[20:55] <smoser> i dont follow.
[20:55] <smoser> some entity is running an instance for you?
[21:02] <smoser> jetole, i think in the past i've said that patches are welcome.
[21:03] <smoser> but if this is a close source app, and you're trying to get into it in some way, its likely the'd have such functionality disabled in their app even if cloud-init did support it.
[21:04] <jetole> smoser: yes a software that the firm I work for has bought is creating instances and it's passing the user password via a json tag in http://169.254.169.254/openstack/latest/meta_data.json. Are you saying that cloud-init cannot access this data?
[21:06] <smoser> it can access it sure.
[21:06] <smoser> but it does not.
[21:19] <jetole> smoser: and I cannot configure cloud-init to set a password based on a tag inserted into that json data?
[21:19] <jetole> I mean aside from writing a script?
[21:19] <jetole> ...which I've already begin doing anyways