An Ansible Role that configure grub on RHEL/CentOS, Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu.

Operating system running on bare metal or on a hypervisor virtualization. Grub does not work on conteinerized systems.

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

grub_default_path: /etc/default/grub

Full path of default grub settings.

grub_timeout: 5

Grub menu timeout in seconds.

grub_recordfail_timeout: "{{ grub_timeout }}"

Menu timeout if "recordfail" condition is true.

grub_allow_reboot: no

Should role perform a reboot after setting up grub?

#grub_options_present:
#  - cgroup_enable=memory
#  - quiet
#  - some.option=complex,off

Options to be added to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX. Value is optional.

#grub_options_absent:
#  - splash
#  - rd.driver.pre

Options to be removed from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX. Notice that only the key should be listed. For example, to remove audit=0, just add audit to the list. Use grub_options_present to ensure the proper value is present. Note that if the options to be added won´t be deleted because the key is listed in this variable.

#grub_superuser: myuser
#grub_password: grub.pbkdf2.sha512.10000.65AA561A865A2CA878473E9080A65E9F0614AEB11BE9BC08DA8E48FF51A4B285B68C299908E75256C992104265C6C9A46A418C889FC5975DD183C501B4998BEA.E050D8AE711A6424E48A946D95C7D10C12A56BE1270939455D676ED7B07FA0307371EF835FB1C8E4B3EF78A78E62AE1F582908355296259C744DDE7E78D5AB19

Sets grub user and password.

#grub_boot_path: /boot/grub2

Optional variable. The role will check if /boot/grub or /boot/grub2 are present in the target system IF this variable is not defined.

#grub_cfg_path: /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Optional variable. The role will check if it is located at grub_boot_path or at /boot/efi/EFI... if EFI is enabled on the system. Checking will happen only IF this variable is not defined.

The variables listed below do not need to be changed for targeted systems (see vars/main.yml):

grub_packages:

Packages that need to be installed to provide grub functionality.

grub_update_grub_command:

Command to be used to issue grub update.

grub_cmdline_var_name:

Represents the cmdline variable that needs to be changed in order to add or remove kernel options.

grub_d_path:

Grub configuration directory.

No dependencies.

- hosts: servers
  vars:
    grub_timeout: 5
    grub_recordfail_timeout: "{{ grub_timeout }}"
    grub_options_present:
      - cgroup_enable=memory
      - quiet
      - some.option=complex,off
    grub_options_absent:
      - splash
      - rd.driver.pre
    grub_superuser: testuser
    grub_password: grub.pbkdf2.sha512.10000.65AA561A865A2CA878473E9080A65E9F0614AEB11BE9BC08DA8E48FF51A4B285B68C299908E75256C992104265C6C9A46A418C889FC5975DD183C501B4998BEA.E050D8AE711A6424E48A946D95C7D10C12A56BE1270939455D676ED7B07FA0307371EF835FB1C8E4B3EF78A78E62AE1F582908355296259C744DDE7E78D5AB19 
  roles:
     - { guidugli.grub }

MIT / BSD

This role was created in 2020 by Carlos Guidugli.