Ansible role grub

Configure grub on your system.

GitHub	GitLab	Downloads	Version

Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/default/converge.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: true

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.grub
      grub_options:
        - option: cgroup_enable
          value: memory
        - option: systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy
          value: 0

The machine needs to be prepared. In CI this is done using molecule/default/prepare.yml:

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: false

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap

  tasks:
    - name: Make /etc/default
      ansible.builtin.file:
        path: /etc/default
        state: directory
        mode: "0755"

    - name: Place bogus /etc/default/grub
      ansible.builtin.copy:
        content: 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="a=1"'
        dest: /etc/default/grub
        mode: "0664"

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Role Variables

The default values for the variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for grub

grub_timeout: 5

grub_recordfail_timeout: "{{ grub_timeout }}"

grub_set_password: false
grub_user: root
# grub_password = changeme
grub_password: grub.pbkdf2.sha512.10000.6CE338C69BC5180354034EEA28BB34BF6D50993A0AEAAE3F001F7CF8078BC3FBCB7968A4BE641AEB00D822FE55E0739ABF4D5F853AECA77958AC90A3DEC7132A.222738FE51C9A000ED1ECB77FA1A28C64AF1DE58D14F397DBF611343D7DC3443E38240663B8690F26F8F1A30BB58A88CCA9EDC4525F4DA0D93D8F2E7FB4623F0
grub_password_unrestricted: true
grub_password_unrestricted_files:
  - /etc/grub.d/10_linux
  - /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen

# Add options here, for example:
# grub_options:
#   - option: cgroup_enable
#     value: memory

Requirements

• pip packages listed in requirements.txt.

State of used roles

The following roles are used to prepare a system. You can prepare your system in another way.

Requirement	GitHub	GitLab
robertdebock.bootstrap

Context

This role is part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

container	tags
Alpine	all
EL	9
Debian	all
Fedora	all
Ubuntu	all

The minimum version of Ansible required is 2.12, tests have been done on:

• The previous version.
• The current version.
• The development version.

If you find issues, please register them on GitHub.

License

Apache-2.0.

Author Information

robertdebock

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