diff --git a/Modulefile b/Modulefile
deleted file mode 100644
index bc1f199..0000000
--- a/Modulefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-name 'puppetlabs-concat'
-version '1.1.0'
-source 'git://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-concat.git'
-author 'Puppetlabs'
-license 'Apache 2.0'
-summary 'Concat module'
-description 'Concat module'
-project_page 'http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-concat'
-dependency 'puppetlabs/stdlib', '>= 4.2.0'
diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/concat_getparam.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/concat_getparam.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1757bdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/concat_getparam.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Test whether a given class or definition is defined
+require 'puppet/parser/functions'
+
+Puppet::Parser::Functions.newfunction(:concat_getparam,
+                                      :type => :rvalue,
+                                      :doc => <<-'ENDOFDOC'
+Takes a resource reference and name of the parameter and
+returns value of resource's parameter.
+
+*Examples:*
+
+    define example_resource($param) {
+    }
+
+    example_resource { "example_resource_instance":
+        param => "param_value"
+    }
+
+    concat_getparam(Example_resource["example_resource_instance"], "param")
+
+Would return: param_value
+ENDOFDOC
+) do |vals|
+  reference, param = vals
+  raise(ArgumentError, 'Must specify a reference') unless reference
+  raise(ArgumentError, 'Must specify name of a parameter') unless param and param.instance_of? String
+
+  return '' if param.empty?
+
+  if resource = findresource(reference.to_s)
+    return resource[param] if resource[param]
+  end
+
+  return ''
+end
diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/concat_is_bool.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/concat_is_bool.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2c2a9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/concat_is_bool.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#
+# concat_is_bool.rb
+#
+
+module Puppet::Parser::Functions
+  newfunction(:concat_is_bool, :type => :rvalue, :doc => <<-EOS
+Returns true if the variable passed to this function is a boolean.
+    EOS
+  ) do |arguments|
+
+    raise(Puppet::ParseError, "concat_is_bool(): Wrong number of arguments " +
+      "given (#{arguments.size} for 1)") if arguments.size != 1
+
+    type = arguments[0]
+
+    result = type.is_a?(TrueClass) || type.is_a?(FalseClass)
+
+    return result
+  end
+end
+
+# vim: set ts=2 sw=2 et :
diff --git a/manifests/fragment.pp b/manifests/fragment.pp
index 0af7edf..34ec4c2 100644
--- a/manifests/fragment.pp
+++ b/manifests/fragment.pp
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ define concat::fragment(
     warning('The $backup parameter to concat::fragment is deprecated and has no effect')
   }
   if $ensure == undef {
-    $my_ensure = getparam(Concat[$target], 'ensure')
+    $my_ensure = concat_getparam(Concat[$target], 'ensure')
   } else {
     if ! ($ensure in [ 'present', 'absent' ]) {
       warning('Passing a value other than \'present\' or \'absent\' as the $ensure parameter to concat::fragment is deprecated.  If you want to use the content of a file as a fragment please use the $source parameter.')
diff --git a/manifests/init.pp b/manifests/init.pp
index 4a68403..a9fa86a 100644
--- a/manifests/init.pp
+++ b/manifests/init.pp
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ define concat(
     fail('$warn is not a string or boolean')
   }
   validate_bool($force)
-  if ! is_bool($backup) and ! is_string($backup) {
+  if ! concat_is_bool($backup) and ! is_string($backup) {
     fail('$backup must be string or bool!')
   }
   validate_bool($replace)
diff --git a/metadata.json b/metadata.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ede05f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metadata.json
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+{
+  "name": "puppetlabs-concat",
+  "version": "1.1.0",
+  "author": "Puppet Labs",
+  "summary": "Concat module",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "source": "https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-concat",
+  "project_page": "https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-concat",
+  "issues_url": "https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-concat/issues",
+  "operatingsystem_support": [
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "RedHat",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "5",
+        "6",
+        "7"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "CentOS",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "5",
+        "6",
+        "7"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "OracleLinux",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "5",
+        "6",
+        "7"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "Scientific",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "5",
+        "6",
+        "7"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "SLES",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "11 SP1"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "Debian",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "6",
+        "7"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "Ubuntu",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "10.04",
+        "12.04",
+        "14.04"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "Solaris",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "10",
+        "11"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "Windows",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "Server 2003 R2",
+        "Server 2008 R2",
+        "Server 2012",
+        "Server 2012 R2"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "AIX",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "5.3",
+        "6.1",
+        "7.1"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "operatingsystem": "OSX",
+      "operatingsystemrelease": [
+        "10.9"
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "requirements": [
+    {
+      "name": "pe",
+      "version_requirement": "3.x"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "puppet",
+      "version_requirement": "3.x"
+    }
+  ],
+  "dependencies": [
+    {
+      "name": "puppetlabs/stdlib",
+      "version_requirement": ">= 3.2.0 < 5.0.0"
+    }
+  ]
+}