[Openstack] [Q] What is MaaS?

Frans Thamura frans at meruvian.org
Fri Sep 14 16:30:13 UTC 2012


so MAAS and MaaS  are different animal..

mm...

CMIIW

On 9/14/12, Sarosh Niazi (muniazi) <muniazi at cisco.com> wrote:
> 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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