[Openstack] [Q] What is MaaS?

Sarosh Niazi (muniazi) muniazi at cisco.com
Fri Sep 14 12:10:42 UTC 2012


Was the original question about MAAS or MaaS??.. MAAS already discussed
below, MaaS is Monitoring As A Service..

On 9/14/12 2:08 AM, "Frans Thamura" <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:

>thx mikyung
>
>will dig more deeply, esp test in machine
>
>F
>
>On 9/14/12, Mikyung Kang <mkkang at isi.edu> wrote:
>> Frans,
>>
>> We've tested bare-metal provisioning on "Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64" for PXE
>>case.
>> Any x86_64 machine works fine.
>>
>> 
>>https://github.com/NTTdocomo-openstack/nova/blob/multinode/nova/virt/bare
>>metal/doc/pxe-bm-installation.rst
>>
>> Also we have a test plan using ARM boards soon, maybe in October.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mikyung, USC/ISI
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frans Thamura" <frans at meruvian.org>
>> To: "Mikyung Kang" <mkkang at isi.edu>
>> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:34:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Q] What is MaaS?
>>
>> hi kevin and mikyung
>>
>> i must learn all :) to educate the member which i try to develop it
>> (openstack-id).
>>
>> and now try to link openstack to education, start with our PaaS
>> initiative under JENI (JAva Education).
>>
>> the basic idea of baremetal is to boot using PXE,
>>
>> any idea recommended hardware to start this baremetal testing?
>>
>> Frans
>>
>> On 9/14/12, Mikyung Kang <mkkang at isi.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi Frans,
>>>
>>> If you're interested in bare-metal cloud, not MaaS specifically,
>>> we(USC/ISI and NTT docomo) want to introduce our bare-metal stuff also.
>>> :)
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openstack.org/GeneralBareMetalProvisioningFramework
>>> 
>>>https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/general-bare-metal-provision
>>>ing-framework
>>>
>>> - Non-PXE support (Tilera+PDU): nova/virt/baremetal
>>> - General bare-metal framework including PXE+IPMI support: review
>>>pending
>>> (will be resumed in early Grizzly, maybe next week)
>>> - Working branch:
>>> https://github.com/NTTdocomo-openstack/nova/tree/multinode
>>> (reference: nova/virt/baremetal/doc/*)(final debugging)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mikyung
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Kevin Jackson" <kevin at linuxservices.co.uk>
>>> To: "Frans Thamura" <frans at meruvian.org>
>>> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:35:10 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Q] What is MaaS?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Frans,
>>> There's a wealth of info over at the MAAS website
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MAAS/ .
>>>
>>> It is Canonical's method for PXE booting and installing an OS so that a
>>> further service, called Juju, can be used to assign the
>>>functions/roles to
>>> a
>>> server that previously had nothing installed (bare metal).
>>> If you're familiar with Cobbler, it is that service with extra hooks to
>>> Juju.
>>>
>>> With Juju you can allocate roles to your MAAS provisioned servers such
>>> as,
>>> be a Glance server, or Compute host in a very simple way similar to
>>>what
>>> apt
>>> does for installing packages on a server.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kev
>>> On Sep 13, 2012 5:27 PM, "Frans Thamura" < frans at meruvian.org > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> hi all
>>>
>>>
>>> can help me to understand MaaS, the bare metal cloud
>>>
>>>
>>> how OpenStack can run in a MaaS, and what is MaaS
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> thx in advanced
>>>
>>>
>>> F
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