aws_autoscaling_group cannot be created with lifecycle hooks in place for its instances

[pcarrier]

It's useful to have lifecycle hooks in place by the time an instance gets created, so all instances can be required to report their boot status through that lifecycle hook.

Unfortunately lifecycle hooks can only be created once the ASG is created.

A proposal is to support creating those at ASG creation time by adding something along the lines of this in the resourceAwsAutoscalingGroup schema:

            "initial_lifecycle_hooks": {
                Type:     schema.TypeSet,
                Optional: true,
                Elem: &schema.Resource{
                    Schema: map[string]*schema.Schema{
                        "name": &schema.Schema{
                            Type:     schema.TypeString,
                            Required: true,
                        },
                        "default_result": &schema.Schema{
                            Type:     schema.TypeString,
                            Optional: true,
                            Computed: true,
                        },
                        "heartbeat_timeout": &schema.Schema{
                            Type:     schema.TypeInt,
                            Optional: true,
                        },
                        "lifecycle_transition": &schema.Schema{
                            Type:     schema.TypeString,
                            Required: true,
                        },
                        "notification_metadata": &schema.Schema{
                            Type:     schema.TypeString,
                            Optional: true,
                        },
                        "notification_target_arn": &schema.Schema{
                            Type:     schema.TypeString,
                            Optional: true,
                        },
                        "role_arn": &schema.Schema{
                            Type:     schema.TypeString,
                            Optional: true,
                        },
                    },
                },
            },

Does that sound acceptable?

Cc @catsby @phinze

[luizsoares]

👍 I'm hitting this exact problem. I'm not qualified to judge your implementation but the idea is great

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