[Openstack] [Q] What is MaaS?

Sarosh Niazi (muniazi) muniazi at cisco.com
Fri Sep 14 16:49:55 UTC 2012


Yes it is.. MaaS is sort of bit new concept in Cloud Space, services
offering to monitor different types of apps..

On 9/14/12 8:30 PM, "Frans Thamura" <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:

>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/ba
>>>>re
>>>>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-provisi
>>>>>on
>>>>>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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>>>>
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