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Bill Wear
11 March 2020

MAAS controller communication

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Much of the functionality of MAAS is contained in controllers. There are two basic types: a region controller and a rack controller. It’s useful to pull back and take a quick look at how these controllers work and interact. This will help you get a better picture of how MAAS operates. Region controller The region ...

Bill Wear
25 February 2020

Quick-add KVMs for MAAS

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

When designing or testing with MAAS, it’s often handy to start with virtual machines. If you’re just on your laptop, and you want to check out a new MAAS version, or mock up some datacentre idea you’ve been considering, KVMs are often very useful. You could create pods, of course, but it’s also very simple ...

Bill Wear
19 February 2020

MAAS doc example: MGH

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We’re creating a cohesive example to give the MAAS documentation some built-in coherence. Have a look. ...

Bill Wear
18 February 2020

MAAS 2.7 released

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Following on from MAAS 2.6.2, we are happy to announce that MAAS 2.7 is now available. This release features some critical bug fixes, along with some exciting new features. CentOS 8 image support For some time, our users have been asking for the capability to deploy CentOS 8 images in MAAS. With the advent of ...

Bill Wear
21 January 2020

MAAS doc undergoing major updates

MAAS Ubuntu tech blog

I want to start using real-world examples and neat networking configurations and other problem-oriented efforts as my baseline for writing. Heck, I’d even like to try using MAAS to control my little Raspberry Pi farm, although that’s probably not the recommended configuration, and I’m not sure how PXE-booting would work yet. ...

Bill Wear
9 January 2020

MAAS readying enhanced network testing and link checking

MAAS Ubuntu tech blog

  Enhanced MAAS Network Testing and Link Checking With the upcoming release of MAAS 2.7, Metal-as-a-Service has gained new network testing and link-checking features.  These features identify broken and slow network links when you try to commission machines, notifying you when there are discrepancies. In this release, we also offer the ca ...

Kit Randel
6 December 2019

Migrating the MAAS UI from AngularJS to React

Design Ubuntu tech blog

MAAS (metal as a service), is a Canonical product which allows for very fast server provisioning and data centre management. Around 2014, work began to build a rich UI for MAAS, primarily using the AngularJS JavaScript framework from Google. AngularJS today is in long term support (LTS) and due to reach end-of-life in 2021. This ...

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