MAAS

MAAS

MAAS | Metal as a Service
https://maas.io/

Very fast server provisioning for your data centre

Self-service, remote installation of Windows, CentOS, ESXi and Ubuntu on real servers turns your data centre into a bare metal cloud.

Welcome to metal-as-a-service.

Data centre automation
Your next rack is a bare metal cloud.
Metal-As-A-Service (MAAS) provisioning with Windows, ESXi, Linux.

• Bare metal cloud with on-demand servers
• Remote edge cluster operations
• Infrastructure monitoring and discovery
• Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SALT, Juju integration
• Super fast install from scratch
• VMWare ESXi, Windows, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu
• Custom images with pre-installed apps
• Disk and network configuration
• API-driven DHCP, DNS, PXE, IPAM
• REST API for provisioning
• LDAP user authentication
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Hardware testing and commissioning

Setup MAAS

Setting and using up MAAS - JOID - OPNFV Wiki - https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/joid/Setting+and+using+up+MAAS

Nodes Networking: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju | Ubuntu blog - https://blog.ubuntu.com/2016/01/31/nodes-networking-deploying-openstack-on-maas-1-9-with-juju

pronouncebale machine names

I understand that sabdfl specifically requested 5-character machine names in MAAS (rather than MAC or IP based names like AWS).

I'd like to make an additional request from a usability perspective... Can we please make the MAAS machine names pronounceable? It's really, really difficult to talk about machines in a cluster when the name is "kslnw" or "xpxrqm".

Here's a suggestion:

$ sudo apt-get install wamerican
$ shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/american-english | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]//g'

That gives much more readable, though still random, machine names. That dictionary has 100K words in it. There's also wbritish, wcanadian. See the scowl source package or http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ for more information.

Ref: Bug #1287224 “MAAS random generated hostnames are not pronouncea...” : Bugs : MAAS - https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1287224

Install

MAAS | How to install MAAS
https://maas.io/docs/fresh-installation-of-maas

Install 3.4 Snap

As of 2024.02.03:

sudo snap install --channel=3.4 maas