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Joshua Harlow c7f9bd1a5b Add docs which can be used on readthedocs.org

Include a new set of docs that can be used to 
create a readthedocs.org site, which includes
examples, directory layout, capabilities and
such. This in-code documentation then allows
for readthedocs.org to create a website directly
from the cloud-init codebase.

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Capabilities

Setting a default locale
Setting a instance hostname
Generating instance ssh private keys
Adding ssh keys to a users .ssh/authorized_keys so they can log in
Setting up ephemeral mount points

User configurability

Cloud-init 's behavior can be configured via user-data.

User-data can be given by the user at instance launch time.

This is done via the --user-data or --user-data-file argument to ec2-run-instances for example.

Check your local clients documentation for how to provide a user-data string or user-data file for usage by cloud-init on instance creation.