Presenter: Nnamdi Ajah, Cloudflare

At web-scale, managing UEFI configurations across thousands of globally distributed servers from multiple vendors is operationally complex. Inconsistent interfaces, undocumented settings, and different tooling from different vendors lead to inefficiencies and toil. Additionally, Redfish support is often inconsistent across many UEFI firmware implementations. To address these issues, a vendor-neutral tool was developed that can run in either EFI or iPXE shells and integrates with existing configuration management systems like Salt, thus enabling standardized, seamless, large-scale UEFI configuration. This approach improves fleet-wide consistency, reduces human error, removes the need for vendor turnaround to implement settings, and eliminates the need for vendor-specific knowledge—allowing teams to manage firmware settings reliably and efficiently across diverse hardware, from a single interface.