[Openstack] [Q] What is MaaS?
Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste at canonical.com
Fri Sep 14 18:58:42 UTC 2012
Hi Frans,
Like Frans explained MAAS is Ubuntu Server builtin provisioning
solution. It stands for Metal-as-a-service and offers an API to
provision Ubuntu systems. Its integrated with Juju
(https://juju.ubuntu.com/) the service orchestration tool.
Juju+MAAS allows you to bootstrap an Openstack cloud easily on
bare-metal. The following page gives the instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuCloudInfrastructure
The version of 12.04 did use Cobbler under the hood, but this part was
replaced for 12.10.
Best regards
On 12-09-13 02:35 PM, Kevin Jackson wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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Francis J. Lacoste
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