one nice unrelated thing that didn't make any of the blog posts, digital ocean now supports userdata when launching instances via console or the api! but it looks like they still need to update their other os images to install cloudinit.
When we began the work to integrate with CoreOS we saw that it was a perfect opportunity to build out the metadata service, which is why we decided to delay that initial launch until we rolled out this service.
After we've had a chance to work through some of the bugs that customers will uncover that we've missed in our testing we'll move forward to updating the rest of our images for this new metadata service and launching it publicly for production consumption for all customers.
