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"MAAS"

Bill Wear
7 July 2021

Moving toward Diátaxis

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We discovered the Diátaxis Framework earlier this year. It’s been on our roadmap to shift MAAS doc to this cool new way of explaining things. This cycle, we plan to make it happen. You’d think it would be obvious…. Diátaxis is one of those ideas. Once you see it, you can’t figure out why everybody ...

Bill Wear
6 July 2021

MAAS 3.0 released

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We are happy to announce the release of MAAS 3.0. This release provides some new features and bug fixes. Here’s the tl;dr summary: PCI and USB devices are now modelled in MAAS PCI and USB device tabs are now available in machine details IBM Z DPM partitions are supported for MAAS and virtual machines Proxmox ...

Bill Wear
17 June 2021

Basic DHCP concepts

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Let’s step back and take a very basic look at DHCP. In fact, let’s look at the analogy of assigning a street address to your house. Usually, this is done by the local 911 dispatch office, or some other central authority. They typically use either a survey map or a latitude, longitude pair to locate ...

aymen frikha
24 March 2021

AI on premise: benefits and a predictive-modeling use case

AI Ubuntu tech blog

Running an Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure on premise has major challenges like high capex and requires internal expertise. It can provide a lot of benefits for organisations that want to establish an AI strategy. The solution outlined in this post illustrates the power and the utility of Juju, a charmed Operator Lifecycle Man ...

Bill Wear
6 January 2021

Improving CLI output with jq

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Welcome back to our series on MAAS CLI operations. In our previous post, we learned how to acquire and deploy machines using the MAAS CLI. It was also evident that the JSON output from the allocate and deploy commands was very lengthy for even one machine — so you can imagine how large a list ...

Bill Wear
10 December 2020

MAAS 2.9 is now available

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical is happy to announce that MAAS 2.9 is now available. We’ll get to the details of installing it in just a moment, but first, let’s walk through a brief overview of the new features and fixes. Later on in this post, we’ll cover some of these features in much more detail. New features & ...

Bill Wear
8 December 2020

MAAS CLI-only machine deployment

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Continuing in our series on CLI-only MAAS operation, it’s time to deploy machines. In the previous post, we reached the point of creating and commissioning machines, using only the MAAS CLI. Moving forward, there are two key steps: acquiring machines, and then deploying them. Let’s take a look Acquiring a machine using the CLI When ...

Bill Wear
2 December 2020

MAAS CLI-only machine creation

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The whole point of MAAS configuration is to get machines deployed. If you read the previous post in this series, you know how to install MAAS and do basic configuration using only the MAAS Command-Line Interface (CLI).  So far, so good, but now we need to enable networking and create some machines. Enabling DHCP The ...

Bill Wear
30 November 2020

CLI-only MAAS operation

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

MAAS provides a state-of-the-art User Interface (UI), which is relatively simple to use, if the required inputs are known and understood. You may be less familiar with the MAAS Command Line Interface (CLI), which is actually more robust, providing additional functionality that’s not accessible via the web UI. In this series of blog posts, ...

Canonical
21 October 2020

Automating Server Provisioning in phoenixNap’s Bare Metal Cloud with MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service)

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

As part of the effort to build a flexible, cloud-native ready infrastructure, phoenixNAP collaborated with Canonical on enabling nearly instant OS installation. Canonical’s MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service) solution allows for automated OS installation on phoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud, making it possible to set up a server in less than two minute ...

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
29 June 2020

Data centre automation for HPC

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks. This is because the more you tune and optimise something, the more bespoke and unique it is, and the more unique something is, the lower the chances that things will just work ...

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