Reboot grain for Linux
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Related / depedency for being able to reboot systems within Enterprise SecOps.
Describe the solution you'd like
Reboot grains for supported Linux distros in the same flavor of Windows reboot grain today.
Describe alternatives you've considered
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Additional context
Being able to reboot a system after remediation is critical so that patches/updates take effect.
Please Note
If this feature request would be considered a substantial change or addition, this should go through a SEP process here https://github.com/saltstack/salt-enhancement-proposals, instead of a feature request.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating Salt's existing Windows reboot grain and the grain entry points for supported Linux distributions. Compare the requested Linux behavior with the Windows grain and determine the distro coverage and tests needed; done means Linux systems expose equivalent reboot information after the change.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, python
- Domain
- devops, infrastructure, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100