​​ec2-metadatafs: 'cat' your AWS EC2 metadata

This tool exposes AWS EC2 metadata as a filesystem for easy ls, cat, and grep'ing.

Advantages over curl http://169.254.169.254:
- Support for tags
- Use filesystem permissions to control access
- Use traditional unix tools to walk and interrogate the tree
- Tab completion of paths
- No need to remember the special IP address of the service

Advantages over the ec2-metadata tool:
- Support for tags
- No need to cut the output of commands to get just the field
- Can use filesystem permissions to control access
- Access to all metadata fields, not just the limited subset the tool returns

Well and browsing the metadata endpoint as a filesystem from an EC2 instance is really cool idea.

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