Goal

• According to the man page of /etc/os-release, there are the fields VARIANT and VARIANT_ID, which can be used to identify special variants of an operating system.
• The customer likes to see the RHEl variants, like EUS or E4S in this field

Example:
VARIANT="Extended Update Services"
VARIANT_ID="EUS"
or
VARIANT="Extended Update Services for SAP"
VARIANT_ID="E4S"
 

• The file /etc/os-release is read by many tools (e.g. monitoring tools like prometheus/node_exporter) to identify operating systems.
• With the additional information provided by VARIANT and VARIANT_ID, it would be possible to react better to certain situations.
• For example, it would then be possible to differentiate if a system with RHEL 8.4 is still supported or not (8.4 EUS is no longer supported, but 8.4 E4S is).

Acceptance Criteria

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

• Verify that the EUS / E4S information are correctly written to /etc/os-release