Follows up #1318
When we move to the cloud system that @caprita is working on, we'll no longer need the app itself to talk to the cloud to prepare its app-db.
The current reasons we have to do it this way are:
- the cloud's blessing doesn't have the correct app portion, and there's no easy way to get an app-type blessing without being inside an app
- the clouds thus far have been manually created without any additional initialization steps.