Cleanly Define Metadata

[dlahn]

Currently, it is only possible to define Metadata for a resource as an argument as such:

resource :instances, 
  "AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration",  
  "Metadata": {

  } do

However, these sections can get quite large, especially is they are being used to define CloudFormation Init metadata.

It would be nice if this metadata could be defined in blocks similar to properties.

[JCotton1123]

@dlahn one solution to this:

resource :instances, 'AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration' do
some_property some_value

self[:MetaData] = <<-EOS
EOS
end

[dlahn]

@JCotton1123 Thanks for the response. That solution isn't working in my testing, but also, it's just moving the JSON from one part of the definition to another. My thought was it would be nicer if it were something like this:

resource :instances,  "AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration" do
  some_property some_value
  metadata, "AWS::CloudFormation::Init" do
    config_sets do
      setup_services ["ecs", "efs"]
    end
  end
end