diff --git a/os_apply_config/collect.py b/os_apply_config/collect.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a188fd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/os_apply_config/collect.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import httplib2
+import json
+
+
+EC2_METADATA_URL = 'http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data'
+
+
+def _fetch_metadata(sub_url):
+    h = httplib2.Http()
+    (resp, content) = h.request('%s%s' % (EC2_METADATA_URL, sub_url))
+    if resp.status != 200:
+        raise Exception('Error fetching %s' % sub_url)
+    return content
+
+
+def collect_ec2():
+    ec2_metadata = {}
+    root_list = _fetch_metadata('/')
+    for item in root_list.split("\n"):
+        ec2_metadata[item] = _fetch_metadata('/%s' % item)
+    return ec2_metadata
+
+def __main__():
+    print json.dumps(collect_ec2())
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    __main__()
diff --git a/os_apply_config/tests/test_collect.py b/os_apply_config/tests/test_collect.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c8db05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/os_apply_config/tests/test_collect.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import fixtures
+import testtools
+from testtools import matchers
+import urlparse
+import uuid
+
+from os_apply_config import collect
+
+
+META_DATA = {'local-ipv4':     '192.0.2.1',
+             'reservation-id': uuid.uuid1(),
+             'local-hostname': 'foo',
+             'ami-launch-index': '0',
+             'public-hostname': 'foo',
+             'hostname': 'foo',
+             'ami-id': uuid.uuid1(),
+             'instance-action': 'none',
+             'public-ipv4': '192.0.2.1',
+             'instance-type': 'flavor.small',
+             'instance-id': uuid.uuid1()}
+
+
+class FakeResponse(dict):
+    status = 200
+
+
+class FakeHttp(object):
+
+    def request(self, url):
+        url = urlparse.urlparse(url)
+
+        if url.path == '/latest/meta-data/':
+            return (FakeResponse(), "\n".join(META_DATA.keys()))
+
+        path = url.path
+        path = path.replace('/latest/meta-data/', '')
+        return (FakeResponse(), META_DATA[path])
+
+
+class TestCollect(testtools.TestCase):
+    def test_collect_ec2(self):
+        self.useFixture(fixtures.MonkeyPatch('httplib2.Http', FakeHttp))
+        ec2 = collect.collect_ec2()
+        self.assertThat(ec2, matchers.IsInstance(dict))
+        for md_key, md_value in iter(META_DATA.items()):
+            self.assertIn(md_key, ec2)
+            self.assertEquals(ec2[md_key], META_DATA[md_key])
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a9f8240..2ec6bda 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 anyjson
 argparse
 d2to1
+httplib2
 pbr
 pystache
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 8880344..cbc777c 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ setup-hooks =
 console_scripts =
 	os-config-applier = os_apply_config.os_apply_config:main
 	os-apply-config = os_apply_config.os_apply_config:main
+    os-collect-config = os_apply_config.collect:__main__
 
 [egg_info]
 tag_build =