Goal

Provide a consistent and stable configuration interface for bootloader configuration within the RHEL System Roles project.

Acceptance Criteria

A list of verification conditions, successful functional tests, or expected outcomes in order to declare this story/task successfully completed.

• Shall provide ability to query the bootloader configuration and receive back a comprehensible view of the bootloader facts that is both easily readable by humans and machines for further automation.
• Safely and idempotently update the bootloader configuration
  • Support for BIOS and UEFI
  • Support for all architectures supported by RHEL
  • Add/remove options grub/bootloader options such as rhgb, quiet, console tty, options to control specter/meltdown mitigations, networking options required for Clevis client, bootloader options specified in security standards such as DISA STIG,  customer specific bootlader options required for 3rd party applications, etc.  
• Set and remove bootloader password
• Modify timeout