1. Fix the welcome_msg name to welcome_message (oops)

2. Adjust that name in the cloud.cfg
3. Add in the ability to specify a dictionary that is the transform instead of a list
   which makes the config look nicer when users have custom transforms with arguments and such.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cloudinit/stages.py b/cloudinit/stages.py
index 70f2bcc9..ba6cb915 100644
--- a/cloudinit/stages.py
+++ b/cloudinit/stages.py
@@ -431,6 +431,18 @@ class Transforms(object):
                     contents['args'] = item[2:]
                 if contents:
                     module_list.append(contents)
+            elif isinstance(item, (dict)):
+                contents = {}
+                valid = False
+                if 'name' in item:
+                    contents['mod'] = item['name'].strip()
+                    valid = True
+                if 'frequency' in item:
+                    contents['freq'] = item['frequency'].strip()
+                if 'args' in item:
+                    contents['args'] = item['args'] or []
+                if contents and valid:
+                    module_list.append(contents)
             else:
                 raise TypeError(("Failed to read '%s' item in config,"
                                  " unknown type %s") %
diff --git a/cloudinit/transforms/welcome_msg.py b/cloudinit/transforms/welcome_message.py
index 04691d21..04691d21 100644
--- a/cloudinit/transforms/welcome_msg.py
+++ b/cloudinit/transforms/welcome_message.py