Blog posts tagged
"sc:snap:maas"

29 posts

Bill Wear
8 December 2020

MAAS CLI-only machine deployment

MAAS Ubuntu

Continuing in our series on CLI-only MAAS operation, it’s time to deploy machines. In the previous post, we reached the point of creating and commissioning machines, using only the MAAS CLI. Moving forward, there are two key steps: acquiring machines, and then deploying them. Let’s take a look Acquiring a machine using...

Bill Wear
8 December 2020

Bill Wear
2 December 2020

MAAS CLI-only machine creation

MAAS Cloud and server

The whole point of MAAS configuration is to get machines deployed. If you read the previous post in this series, you know how to install MAAS and do basic configuration using only the MAAS Command-Line Interface (CLI).  So far, so good, but now we need to enable networking and create some machines. Enabling DHCP The

Bill Wear
2 December 2020

Bill Wear
30 November 2020

CLI-only MAAS operation

MAAS Cloud and server

MAAS provides a state-of-the-art User Interface (UI), which is relatively simple to use, if the required inputs are known and understood. You may be less familiar with the MAAS Command Line Interface (CLI), which is actually more robust, providing additional functionality that’s not accessible via the web UI. In this...

Bill Wear
30 November 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
24 June 2020

MAAS 2.8 – new features

Article MAAS

What’s new? This new release of MAAS brings three key new benefits: Virtual machines with LXD (Beta) Tighter, more responsive UX External/remote PostgreSQL database If you know what you want, go to maas.io/install, otherwise let’s dive in and explore these further. Virtual machines (VMs) with LXD (Beta) MAAS 2.8 can set...

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
24 June 2020

H Wilkins
19 June 2020

Making the MAAS machine list fast with React

Article Design

We have been transitioning the web interface for MAAS from AngularJS to React. One of the reasons for this is to make the interface faster. The main page with performance issues is the list of machines. This list needs to be fast at displaying a few hundred machines at a bare minimum. So what happens

H Wilkins
19 June 2020

Kit Randel
4 June 2020

Building a cross-framework UI with single-spa in MAAS 2.8

Article Design

A new machine list, and a new framework In MAAS 2.8, we’re shipping a new machine list, built from the ground up in React and Redux. We’ve also implemented a few new features: persisting UI state for grouping, new grouping options, bookmarkable urls with filter and search parameters, and many performance improvements. ...

Kit Randel
4 June 2020

Bill Wear
15 April 2020

LXD pod commissioning data

MAAS Cloud and server

MAAS is built to manage machines, including the operating systems on those machines. Enlistment and commissioning are features that make it easier to start managing a machine – as long as that machine has been configured to netboot. Enlistment enables users to simply connect a machine, configure the firmware properly,...

Bill Wear
15 April 2020

Bill Wear
9 April 2020

Questioning the doc

MAAS Cloud and server

Here’s a VLOG about some changes we’re making to the MAAS documentation. It’s all about using questions at the top of articles to help direct attention. This idea grew out of our frustration over long pages with lots of complex information. We tried a top table of contents, but that looks weird and requires a

Bill Wear
9 April 2020

Bill Wear
11 March 2020

MAAS controller communication

MAAS Cloud and server

Much of the functionality of MAAS is contained in controllers. There are two basic types: a region controller and a rack controller. It’s useful to pull back and take a quick look at how these controllers work and interact. This will help you get a better picture of how MAAS operates. Region controller The region

Bill Wear
11 March 2020

Bill Wear
25 February 2020

Quick-add KVMs for MAAS

MAAS Cloud and server

When designing or testing with MAAS, it’s often handy to start with virtual machines. If you’re just on your laptop, and you want to check out a new MAAS version, or mock up some datacentre idea you’ve been considering, KVMs are often very useful. You could create pods, of course, but it’s also very simple

Bill Wear
25 February 2020

Bill Wear
19 February 2020

MAAS doc example: MGH

MAAS Cloud and server

We’re creating a cohesive example to give the MAAS documentation some built-in coherence. Have a look.

Bill Wear
19 February 2020

Bill Wear
18 February 2020

MAAS 2.7 released

MAAS Cloud and server

Following on from MAAS 2.6.2, we are happy to announce that MAAS 2.7 is now available. This release features some critical bug fixes, along with some exciting new features. CentOS 8 image support For some time, our users have been asking for the capability to deploy CentOS 8 images in MAAS. With the advent of

Bill Wear
18 February 2020

Bill Wear
21 January 2020

MAAS doc undergoing major updates

Article MAAS

I want to start using real-world examples and neat networking configurations and other problem-oriented efforts as my baseline for writing. Heck, I’d even like to try using MAAS to control my little Raspberry Pi farm, although that’s probably not the recommended configuration, and I’m not sure how PXE-booting would work yet.

Bill Wear
21 January 2020

Bill Wear
9 January 2020

MAAS readying enhanced network testing and link checking

Article MAAS

  Enhanced MAAS Network Testing and Link Checking With the upcoming release of MAAS 2.7, Metal-as-a-Service has gained new network testing and link-checking features.  These features identify broken and slow network links when you try to commission machines, notifying you when there are discrepancies. In this release,...

Bill Wear
9 January 2020

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