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"server provisioning"

Bill Wear
10 October 2023

MAAS Outside the Lines

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Far from the humdrum of server setups, this is about unusual deployments – Raspberry Pis, loose laptops, cheap NUCs, home appliances, and more. What the heck is stormrider deploying this week? ...

Bill Wear
13 December 2021

Linux deployment tools: MAAS 3.1 for hot metal

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Back a few months ago, we did a feature poll on our MAAS forum, and the most-requested new feature turned out to be “Recommission/rescan a machine after it has been deployed“. With the release of MAAS 3.1, we’ve added that feature, making MAAS an even better choice for linux deployment tools. Here’s a sample of ...

Bill Wear
6 December 2021

Announcing MAAS 3.1: bare metal cloud gets easier

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We are happy to announce that MAAS 3.1 has been released. Bare metal provisioning just got even easier! MAAS 3.1 brings some of the most frequently-requested features into the product. A lot of this is serendipity — or maybe you could say that it’s about like minds tracking the same problem. Either way, we’re doing ...

Anton Smith
8 October 2021

Provisioning bare metal Kubernetes clusters with Spectro Cloud and MAAS

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Bare metal Kubernetes (K8s) is now easier than ever. Spectro Cloud has recently posted an article about integrating Kubernetes with MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service. In the article, they describe how they have created a provider for the Kubernetes Cluster API for Canonical MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service).  This blog describes briefly the benefits of ba ...

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration in MAAS

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

In this blog, we are going to explore how to leverage MAAS for hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration using tags. In many cases, certain pieces of hardware require extra kernel parameters to be set in order to make use of them. For example, when configuring GPU passthrough we will typically need to configure the GPU ...

Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Provisioning ESXi with MAAS: An overview

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

MAAS has supported provisioning ESXi starting from MAAS 2.5. However, MAAS 2.6 has expanded its support and provides new features that significantly improves the provisioning experience. What is supported? The support MAAS provides for provisioning an operating system varies depending on the operating system in use. Even though MAAS tries ...

Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that enhances MAAS across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones: Growing support for ESXi Datastores MAAS has expanded its support of ESXi by allowing administrators to create & c ...

Canonical
21 November 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 (final) Released!

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This article originally appeared on Andres Rodriguez’s blog I’m happy to announce that MAAS 2.3.0 (final) is now available! This new MAAS release introduces a set of exciting features and improvements to the overall user experience. It now becomes the focus of maintenance, as it fully replaces MAAS 2.2 In order to provide with sufficient ...

Canonical
22 August 2017

MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 Released!

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Hello MAASters!I’m happy to annouce that MAAS 2.3.0 Alpha 2 has now been released and it is currently available in Ubuntu Artful, PPA for Xenial and as a snap.PPA AvailabilityFor those running Ubuntu Xenial and would like to use Alpha 1, please use the following PPA:Snap AvailabilityFor those running from the snap, or would like to test t ...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 March 2017

Video tutorial: learn how to install MAAS

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This short video offers step-by-step instructions on how to install MAAS (Metal as a Service) to your machine. Before you start you’ll need: One small server for MAAS and at least one server which can be managed with a BMC. It is recommended to have the MAAS server provide DHCP and DNS on a network the ...

Canonical
2 March 2017

Bare metal server provisioning series: the economics of automation

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This is the first in a series of blogs posts discussing the value of bare metal server provisioning and the economics it can bring to businesses. The server industry is becoming more and more automated. Robots are helping to deploy servers and clouds that are moving away from large racks of blades and hardware managed ...

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