diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 35ddd58..69ac9da 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PREFIX?=/
 
-SUBPACKAGES = core network openrc aws azure gcp oci
+SUBPACKAGES = core network openrc aws azure gcp oci nocloud
 
 .PHONY: install $(SUBPACKAGES)
 
@@ -59,5 +59,11 @@ oci: conf_dir
 	sed -Ee 's/^#?CLOUD=.*/CLOUD=oci/' \
 		etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud.example > "$(PREFIX)"/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud
 
+nocloud: conf_dir
+	install -Dm644 -t $(PREFIX)/lib/tiny-cloud/nocloud \
+		lib/tiny-cloud/nocloud/*
+	sed -Ee 's/^#?CLOUD=.*/CLOUD=nocloud/' \
+		etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud.example > "$(PREFIX)"/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud
+
 conf_dir:
-	mkdir -p "$(PREFIX)"/etc/conf.d
\ No newline at end of file
+	mkdir -p "$(PREFIX)"/etc/conf.d
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5b8dc74..c533892 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,10 +8,13 @@ do just what is necessary with a small footprint and minimal dependencies.
 A direct descendant of [tiny-ec2-bootstrap](
 https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/cloud/tiny-ec2-bootstrap), Tiny Cloud
 works with multiple cloud providers.  Currently, the following are supported:
-* AWS (Amazon Web Services)
-* Azure (Microsoft Azure)
-* GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
-* OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
+* [AWS](https://aws.amazon.com) (Amazon Web Services)
+* [Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com) (Microsoft Azure)
+* [GCP](https://cloud.google.com) (Google Cloud Platform)
+* [OCI](https://cloud.oracle.com) (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
+* [NoCloud](
+    https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/datasources/nocloud.html)
+  (cloud-init's NoCloud AWS-compatible data source)
 
 ## Features
 
@@ -44,9 +47,12 @@ As Tiny Cloud is meant to be tiny, it has very few dependencies:
 * `partx`
 * `resize2fs`
 * `sfdisk`
+* [`yx`](https://gitlab.com/tomalok/yx)
+  (optional, allows NoCloud to extract metadata from YAML files)
 
 Tiny Cloud has been developed specifically for use with the
-[Alpine Cloud Images](https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/cloud/alpine-cloud-images)
+[Alpine Cloud Images](
+  https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/cloud/alpine-cloud-images)
 project, and as such, it is currently tailored for use with [Alpine Linux](
 https://alpinelinux.org), the [OpenRC](https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc) init
 system, and the `ext4` root filesystem.  If you would like to see Tiny Cloud
@@ -57,12 +63,12 @@ open an issue with your request -- or better yet, submit a merge request!
 
 Typically, Tiny Cloud is installed and configured when building a cloud image,
 and is available on Alpine Linux as the [`tiny-cloud`](
-https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=tiny-cloud) APK...
+  https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=tiny-cloud*) APKs...
 ```
-apk install tiny-cloud
+apk install tiny-cloud-<cloud>
 ```
 This will install the necessary init scripts, libraries, etc. plus any missing
-dependencies.
+dependencies for Tiny Cloud to support _`<cloud>`_.
 
 Alternately, you can download a release tarball, and use `make` to install it.
 
@@ -79,9 +85,9 @@ By default, Tiny Cloud expects configuration at `/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud`,
 The stock [`etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud`](etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud) file contains
 details of all tuneable settings.
 
-*Because Tiny Cloud does not currently do auto-detection, you **MUST** set a
+_Because Tiny Cloud does not currently do auto-detection, you **MUST** set a
 configuration value for `CLOUD` indicating which cloud provider will be used.
-Current valid values are `aws`, `azure`, `gcp`, and `oci`.*
+Current valid values are `aws`, `azure`, `gcp`, `oci`, and `nocloud`._
 
 ## Operation
 
@@ -106,13 +112,18 @@ data, and sets up instance's hostname and the cloud user's SSH keys before
 
 `tiny-cloud-final` should be the very last init script to run in the
 **default** runlevel.  By default, it saves the instance's user data to
-`/var/lib/cloud/user-data`, which is overrideable via the `TINY_CLOUD_VAR`
-andr `CLOUD_USERDATA` config settings.
+`/var/lib/cloud/user-data`; the directory overrideable via the `TINY_CLOUD_VAR`
+config setting.
 
-If the user data is a script starting with `#!/`, it will be executed; its
+If the user data is compressed, Tiny Cloud will decompress it.  Currently
+supported compression algorithms are `gzip`, `bzip2`, `unxz`, `lzma`, `lzop`,
+`lz4`, and `zstd`.  _(Note that `lz4` and `zstd` are not installed in Alpine
+by default, and would need to be added to the image.)_
+
+If the user data is a script starting with `#!`, it will be executed; its
 output (combined STDOUT and STDERR) and exit code are saved to
-`/var/log/user-data.log` and `/var/log/user-data.exit`, respectively -- unless
-overriden with `TINY_CLOUD_LOGS` and `CLOUD_USERDATA` config settings.
+`/var/log/user-data.log` and `/var/log/user-data.exit`, respectively; the
+directory is overrideable via the `TINY_CLOUD_LOGS` config setting.
 
 If all went well, the very last thing `tiny-cloud-final` does is touch
 a `.bootstrap-complete` file into existence in `/var/lib/cloud` or another
diff --git a/bin/imds b/bin/imds
index 2a1de30..146d806 100755
--- a/bin/imds
+++ b/bin/imds
@@ -12,18 +12,7 @@
 unset \
     IMDS_HEADER \
     IMDS_URI \
-    IMDS_QUERY \
-    IMDS_HOSTNAME \
-    IMDS_SSH_KEYS \
-    IMDS_USERDATA \
-    IMDS_NICS \
-    IMDS_MAC \
-    IMDS_IPV4 \
-    IMDS_IPV6 \
-    IMDS_IPV4_NET \
-    IMDS_IPV6_NET \
-    IMDS_IPV4_PREFIX \
-    IMDS_IPV6_PREFIX
+    IMDS_QUERY
 unset -f \
     _imds_token \
     _imds_header \
@@ -35,15 +24,36 @@ unset -f \
 CLOUD="${CLOUD:-unknown}"
 IMDS_ENDPOINT="169.254.169.254"
 
+# Common to AWS and NoCloud(ish)
+IMDS_HOSTNAME="meta-data/hostname"
+IMDS_SSH_KEYS="meta-data/public-keys"
+IMDS_USERDATA="user-data"
+IMDS_NICS="meta-data/network/interfaces/macs"
+IMDS_MAC="mac"
+IMDS_IPV4="local-ipv4s"
+IMDS_IPV6="ipv6s"
+IMDS_IPV4_NET="subnet-ipv4-cidr-block"
+IMDS_IPV6_NET="subnet-ipv6-cidr-blocks"
+IMDS_IPV4_PREFIX="ipv4-prefix"
+IMDS_IPV6_PREFIX="ipv6-prefix"
+
 _imds() {
     wget --quiet --timeout 1 --output-document - \
         --header "$(_imds_header)" \
         "http://$IMDS_ENDPOINT/$IMDS_URI/$1$IMDS_QUERY"
 }
 
-_imds_ssh_keys() { _imds "$IMDS_SSH_KEYS"; }
 _imds_userdata() { _imds "$IMDS_USERDATA"; }
 
+_imds_ssh_keys() {
+    local key
+    for key in $(imds "$IMDS_SSH_KEYS"); do
+        imds "$IMDS_SSH_KEYS/${key%=*}/openssh-key"
+    done | sort -u
+}
+
+_imds_nic_index() { cat "/sys/class/net/$1/address"; }
+
 ### load cloud-specific variables and functions
 
 if [ ! -d /lib/tiny-cloud/"$CLOUD" ]; then
diff --git a/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud.example b/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud.example
index 904e11b..5cc8b59 100644
--- a/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud.example
+++ b/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud.example
@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
 # Tiny Cloud configuration
 
-# REQUIRED: The instance's cloud provider (valid: aws, azure, gcp, oci)
-# valid: aws, azure, gcp, oci
+# REQUIRED: The instance's cloud provider
+# valid: aws, azure, gcp, oci, nocloud
 #CLOUD=
 
 # User account where instance SSH keys are installed
 #CLOUD_USER=alpine
 
-# Filename of userdata file (in TINY_CLOUD_VAR directory)
-#CLOUD_USERDATA=user-data
-
 # IMDS token validity, in seconds (AWS only)
 #IMDS_TOKEN_TTL=5
 
@@ -28,5 +25,5 @@
 
 # Explicitly skip these (whitespace delimited) things during init
 # valid: expand_root install_hotplugs set_hostname set_ssh_keys
-#   save_userdata run_userdata
+#   save_userdata decompress_userdata run_userdata
 #SKIP_INIT_ACTIONS=
diff --git a/lib/tiny-cloud/aws/imds b/lib/tiny-cloud/aws/imds
index 2501544..3ade15f 100644
--- a/lib/tiny-cloud/aws/imds
+++ b/lib/tiny-cloud/aws/imds
@@ -6,19 +6,6 @@ IMDS_TOKEN_TTL_HEADER="X-aws-ec2-metadata-token-ttl-seconds"
 IMDS_TOKEN_TTL=${IMDS_TOKEN_TTL:-5}
 IMDS_URI="latest"
 
-IMDS_HOSTNAME="meta-data/hostname"
-IMDS_SSH_KEYS="meta-data/public-keys"
-IMDS_USERDATA="user-data"
-
-IMDS_NICS="meta-data/network/interfaces/macs"
-IMDS_MAC="mac"
-IMDS_IPV4="local-ipv4s"
-IMDS_IPV6="ipv6s"
-IMDS_IPV4_NET="subnet-ipv4-cidr-block"
-IMDS_IPV6_NET="subnet-ipv6-cidr-blocks"
-IMDS_IPV4_PREFIX="ipv4-prefix"
-IMDS_IPV6_PREFIX="ipv6-prefix"
-
 _imds_token() {
     echo -ne "PUT /latest/api/token" \
         "HTTP/1.0\r\n$IMDS_TOKEN_TTL_HEADER: $IMDS_TOKEN_TTL\r\n\r\n" |
@@ -27,14 +14,4 @@ _imds_token() {
 
 _imds_header() {
     echo "$IMDS_HEADER: $(_imds_token)"
-}
-
-# digs deeper than the default
-_imds_ssh_keys() {
-    local key
-    for key in $(imds "$IMDS_SSH_KEYS"); do
-        imds "$IMDS_SSH_KEYS/${key%=*}/openssh-key"
-    done | sort -u
-}
-
-_imds_nic_index() { cat "/sys/class/net/$1/address"; }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/tiny-cloud/azure/imds b/lib/tiny-cloud/azure/imds
index b04dc79..c638ca2 100644
--- a/lib/tiny-cloud/azure/imds
+++ b/lib/tiny-cloud/azure/imds
@@ -8,8 +8,17 @@ IMDS_URI="metadata/instance"
 IMDS_HOSTNAME="compute/name"
 IMDS_SSH_KEYS="compute/publicKeys"
 IMDS_USERDATA="compute/userData"
+IMDS_NICS="network/interface"
 
-IMDS_NICS=""
+# TODO: flesh out networking
+unset \
+    IMDS_MAC \
+    IMDS_IPV4 \
+    IMDS_IPV6 \
+    IMDS_IPV4_NET \
+    IMDS_IPV6_NET \
+    IMDS_IPV4_PREFIX \
+    IMDS_IPV6_PREFIX
 
 _imds_header() {
     echo "$IMDS_HEADER: true"
diff --git a/lib/tiny-cloud/common b/lib/tiny-cloud/common
index 2590796..206b39a 100644
--- a/lib/tiny-cloud/common
+++ b/lib/tiny-cloud/common
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # vim: ts=4 et ft=sh:
 
 log() {
-    local facility=kern
+    local facility="kern"
     local stderr
     local tag=$(basename "$0")
     while [ "${1:0:1}" = '-' ]; do
diff --git a/lib/tiny-cloud/init-common b/lib/tiny-cloud/init-common
index 6d23b84..2632c78 100644
--- a/lib/tiny-cloud/init-common
+++ b/lib/tiny-cloud/init-common
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 # set defaults
 CLOUD_USER=${CLOUD_USER:-alpine}
-CLOUD_USERDATA=${CLOUD_USERDATA:-user-data}
 TINY_CLOUD_LOGS=${TINY_CLOUD_LOGS:-/var/log}
 TINY_CLOUD_VAR=${TINY_CLOUD_VAR:-/var/lib/cloud}
 SKIP_INIT_ACTIONS=${SKIP_INIT_ACTIONS:-}
diff --git a/lib/tiny-cloud/init-final b/lib/tiny-cloud/init-final
index 696d3eb..97f4716 100644
--- a/lib/tiny-cloud/init-final
+++ b/lib/tiny-cloud/init-final
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ match_header() {
     [ "$bytes" = $(dd bs=1 count=${#bytes} if="$2" 2>/dev/null) ]
 }
 
-# TODO: also do this for nocloud meta-data and vendor-data?
 save_userdata() {
     skip_action save_userdata && return
 
@@ -18,29 +17,30 @@ save_userdata() {
     local cmd
 
     imds -e @userdata > "$tmpfile"
-    if match_header '\037\213\010' "$tmpfile"; then
-        cmd='gzip -dc'
-    elif match_header 'BZh' "$tmpfile"; then
-        cmd='bzip2 -dc'
-    elif match_header '\3757zXZ\000' "$tmpfile"; then
-        cmd='xz -dc'
-    elif match_header '\135\0\0\0' "$tmpfile"; then
-        cmd='lzma -dc'
-    elif match_header '\211\114\132' "$tmpfile"; then
-        cmd='lzop -dc'
-    elif match_header '\002!L\030' "$tmpfile"; then
-        cmd='lz4 -dc'
-    elif match_header '(\265/\375' "$tmpfile"; then
-        cmd='zstd -dc'
-    else
-        cmd='cat'
+    cmd="cat"
+    if ! skip_action decompress_userdata; then
+        if match_header '\037\213\010' "$tmpfile"; then
+            cmd="gzip -dc"
+        elif match_header 'BZh' "$tmpfile"; then
+            cmd="bzip2 -dc"
+        elif match_header '\3757zXZ\000' "$tmpfile"; then
+            cmd="unxz -c"
+        elif match_header '\135\0\0\0' "$tmpfile"; then
+            cmd="lzma -dc"
+        elif match_header '\211\114\132' "$tmpfile"; then
+            cmd="lzop -dc"
+        elif match_header '\002!L\030' "$tmpfile"; then
+            cmd="lz4 -dc"
+        elif match_header '(\265/\375' "$tmpfile"; then
+            cmd="zstd -dc"
+        fi
     fi
     $cmd "$tmpfile" > "$userdata"
     rm "$tmpfile"
 }
 
 is_userdata_script() {
-    head -n1 "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/$CLOUD_USERDATA" | grep -q '#!/'
+    head -n1 "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/$CLOUD_USERDATA" | grep -q "#!/"
 }
 
 run_userdata() {
diff --git a/lib/tiny-cloud/mdev b/lib/tiny-cloud/mdev
index 7e5ea25..345a945 100644
--- a/lib/tiny-cloud/mdev
+++ b/lib/tiny-cloud/mdev
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ install_before() {
         line="-$line"
     else
         # no rule exists, put it before the catch-all fallback
-        before='^# fallback'
+        before="^# fallback"
         line="$line\n"
     fi
     sed -i -Ee "s|($before.*)|$line\n\1|" /etc/mdev.conf
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ install_before() {
 mod__vnic_eth_hotplug() {
     [ -f /lib/mdev/vnic-eth-hotplug ] || return 1
 
-    install_before '^eth' \
-        'eth[0-9]	root:root 0644 */lib/mdev/vnic-eth-hotplug'
+    install_before "^eth" \
+        "eth[0-9]	root:root 0644 */lib/mdev/vnic-eth-hotplug"
 
     # NICs attached at launch don't get added with mdev -s
     assemble-interfaces
diff --git a/lib/tiny-cloud/nocloud/imds b/lib/tiny-cloud/nocloud/imds
index f45e7d2..97c3e30 100644
--- a/lib/tiny-cloud/nocloud/imds
+++ b/lib/tiny-cloud/nocloud/imds
@@ -1,46 +1,76 @@
 # NoCloud Instance Metadata
 # vim: ts=4 et ft=sh:
 
-IMDS_HOSTNAME=meta-data/hostname
-IMDS_SSH_KEYS=meta-data/ssh-keys
-IMDS_USERDATA=user-data
+NOCLOUD_FILES="meta-data user-data vendor-data network-config"
 
-# have we loaded the nocloud meta/user/vendor data?
 is_nocloud_loaded() { [ -f "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/.nocloud_loaded" ]; }
 
-# from location specified in kernel cmdline
 _load_nocloud_cmdline() {
-    # TODO
+    local kopt kv k v data
+
+    for kopt in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
+        echo "$kopt" | grep -qE '(^|=)ds=nocloud(-net)?(;|$)' || continue
+        for kv in $(echo "$kopt" | cut -d\; -f2-); do
+            k=$(echo "$kv" | cut -d= -f1)
+            v=$(echo "$kv" | cut -d= -f2- | sed -Ee s'|^file://|/|')
+            case "$k" in
+                h|hostname)
+                    echo -e "\nhostname: $hostname" >> "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/meta-data"
+                    ;;
+                i|instance-id)
+                    echo -e "\ninstance-id: $hostname" >> "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/meta-data"
+                    ;;
+                s|seedfrom)
+                    for data in $NOCLOUD_FILES; do
+                        case "$v" in
+                            /*)
+                                cat "$v" >> "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/$data" || continue
+                                echo >> "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/$data"
+                                ;;
+                            http://*|https://*)
+                                wget -qO - "$v" >> "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/$data" || continue
+                                echo >> "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/$data"
+                                ;;
+                            *) echo "WARNING: Ignoring unknown seedfrom value '$v'" >&2
+                                ;;
+                        esac
+                        ;;
+                    done
+                    ;;
+                *)  echo "WARNING: Ignoring unknown nocloud kernel cmdline key '$k'" >&2
+                    ;;
+            esac
+        done
+        return
+    done
 }
 
-# from volume labeled cidata|CIDATA
 _load_nocloud_volume() {
-    local mntdir='/mnt/cidata'
+    local mntdir=$(mktmemp /mnt/cidata-XXXXXX)
+    local data
 
-    mkdir "$mntdir"
-    mount -L cidata "$mntdir" || mount -L CIDATA "$mntdir" || return 1
-    for data in meta user vendor; do
-        if ! cp "$mntdir/$data-data" "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/$data-data"; then
-            [ "$data" = vendor ] && continue
-            echo "ERROR: Required $data-data not found on CIDATA volume"
-            umount "$mntdir"
-            return 1
-        fi
+    mkdir -p "$mntdir"
+    # TODO: are lables case insensitive?
+    mount LABEL=cidata "$mntdir" || mount LABEL=CIDATA "$mntdir" || return 1
+    for data in $NOCLOUD_FILES; do
+        cp "$mntdir/$data" "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/$data" 2>/dev/null
     done
     umount "$mntdir"
+    rmdir "$mntdir"
 }
 
 load_nocloud() {
     is_nocloud_loaded && return
-    if grep -qE ' ds=nocloud(-net)?[; ]' /proc/cmdline; then
-        if ! _load_nocloud_cmdline; then
-            echo 'ERROR: Unable to load nocloud data specified in kernel cmdline' >&2
-            return 1
-        fi
-    elif ! _load_nocloud_volume; then
-        echo 'ERROR: Unable to load nocloud data from CIDATA volume' >&2
+
+    # start with a clean slate
+    rm -f $NOCLOUD_FILES
+
+    if ! _load_nocloud_cmdline || _load_nocloud_volume; then
+        echo "ERROR: Unable to load NoCloud data" >&2
         return 1
     fi
+    # at the very minimum, we expect something in meta-data
+
     touch "$TINY_CLOUD_VAR/.nocloud_loaded"
 }
 
@@ -56,4 +86,4 @@ _imds() {
 
     # use 'file/' to get top-level keys
     [ "$1" = "$file" ] && cat "$file" || yx -f "$file" "$key"
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/tiny-cloud/oci/imds b/lib/tiny-cloud/oci/imds
index 9c78e16..caface5 100644
--- a/lib/tiny-cloud/oci/imds
+++ b/lib/tiny-cloud/oci/imds
@@ -7,11 +7,24 @@ IMDS_URI="opc/v2"
 IMDS_HOSTNAME="instance/hostname"
 IMDS_SSH_KEYS="instance/metadata/ssh_authorized_keys"
 IMDS_USERDATA="instance/metadata/userdata"
+IMDS_NICS="nics"
+
+# TODO: flesh out networking
+unset \
+    IMDS_MAC \
+    IMDS_IPV4 \
+    IMDS_IPV6 \
+    IMDS_IPV4_NET \
+    IMDS_IPV6_NET \
+    IMDS_IPV4_PREFIX \
+    IMDS_IPV6_PREFIX
 
 _imds_header() {
     echo "$IMDS_HEADER: Bearer Oracle"
 }
 
+_imds_ssh_keys() { _imds "$IMDS_SSH_KEYS"; }
+
 _imds_nic_index() {
     local m n=0
     local mac=$(cat /sys/class/net/$1/mac)
@@ -19,4 +32,4 @@ _imds_nic_index() {
         [ "$m" = "$mac" ] && echo $n; return 0
     done
     return 1
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file