Blog posts tagged
"server provisioning"

13 posts

Bill Wear
10 October 2023

MAAS Outside the Lines

Article Cloud and server

Far from the humdrum of server setups, this is about unusual deployments – Raspberry Pis, loose laptops, cheap NUCs, home appliances, and more. What the heck is stormrider deploying this week?

Bill Wear
10 October 2023

Bill Wear
13 December 2021

Linux deployment tools: MAAS 3.1 for hot metal

Article Cloud and server

Back a few months ago, we did a feature poll on our MAAS forum, and the most-requested new feature turned out to be “Recommission/rescan a machine after it has been deployed“. With the release of MAAS 3.1, we’ve added that feature, making MAAS an even better choice for linux deployment tools. Here’s a sample of

Bill Wear
13 December 2021

Bill Wear
6 December 2021

Announcing MAAS 3.1: bare metal cloud gets easier

Article Cloud and server

We are happy to announce that MAAS 3.1 has been released. Bare metal provisioning just got even easier! MAAS 3.1 brings some of the most frequently-requested features into the product. A lot of this is serendipity — or maybe you could say that it’s about like minds tracking the same problem. Either way, we’re doing

Bill Wear
6 December 2021

Anton Smith
8 October 2021

Provisioning bare metal Kubernetes clusters with Spectro Cloud and MAAS

Article Cloud and server

Bare metal Kubernetes (K8s) is now easier than ever. Spectro Cloud has recently posted an article about integrating Kubernetes with MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service. In the article, they describe how they have created a provider for the Kubernetes Cluster API for Canonical MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service).  This blog describes briefly...

Anton Smith
8 October 2021

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration in MAAS

Article Cloud and server

In this blog, we are going to explore how to leverage MAAS for hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration using tags. In many cases, certain pieces of hardware require extra kernel parameters to be set in order to make use of them. For example, when configuring GPU passthrough we will typically need to configure the GPU

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Provisioning ESXi with MAAS: An overview

Article Cloud and server

MAAS has supported provisioning ESXi starting from MAAS 2.5. However, MAAS 2.6 has expanded its support and provides new features that significantly improves the provisioning experience. What is supported? The support MAAS provides for provisioning an operating system varies depending on the operating system in use....

Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that enhances MAAS across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones: Growing support for ESXi Datastores MAAS has expanded its support of ESXi by allowing...

Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

Canonical
21 November 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 (final) Released!

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Andres Rodriguez’s blog I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 (final) is now available! This new MAAS release introduces a set of exciting features and improvements to the overall user experience. It now becomes the focus of maintenance, as it fully replaces MAAS 2.2 In order to...

Canonical
21 November 2017

Canonical
22 August 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 Released!

Article Cloud and server

Hello MAASters!I’m happy to annouce that MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 has now been released and it is currently available in Ubuntu Artful, PPA for Xenial and as a snap.PPA AvailabilityFor those running Ubuntu Xenial and would like to use Alpha 1, please use the following PPA:Snap AvailabilityFor those running from the snap, or...

Canonical
22 August 2017

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 March 2017

Video tutorial: learn how to install MAAS

Videos Cloud and server

This short video offers step-by-step instructions on how to install MAAS (Metal as a Service) to your machine. Before you start you’ll need: One small server for MAAS and at least one server which can be managed with a BMC. It is recommended to have the MAAS server provide DHCP and DNS on a network the

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 March 2017

Canonical
2 March 2017

Bare metal server provisioning series: the economics of automation

Article Cloud and server

This is the first in a series of blogs posts discussing the value of bare metal server provisioning and the economics it can bring to businesses. The server industry is becoming more and more automated. Robots are helping to deploy servers and clouds that are moving away from large racks of blades and hardware managed

Canonical
2 March 2017

Canonical
22 February 2017

Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS

Webinar Cloud and server

Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach 2017. Watch it on-demand now. Data center operators are quickly becoming more automated and need to have the flexibility to leverage their hardware infrastructure...

Canonical
22 February 2017

Canonical
23 January 2017

What IT pros need to know about server provisioning

White paper Cloud and server

Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being challenged and replaced by software solutions that are deployed across many environments and many servers. However, no matter what infrastructure you have, there are...

Canonical
23 January 2017