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Bill Wear
17 June 2021

Basic DHCP concepts

MAAS Ubuntu

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

Bill Wear
17 June 2021

aymen frikha
24 March 2021

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

Article AI

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...

aymen frikha
24 March 2021

Bill Wear
6 January 2021

Improving CLI output with jq

MAAS Cloud and server

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
6 January 2021

Bill Wear
10 December 2020

MAAS 2.9 is now available

MAAS Ubuntu

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
10 December 2020

Bill Wear
8 December 2020

MAAS CLI-only machine deployment

MAAS Ubuntu

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...

Bill Wear
8 December 2020

Bill Wear
2 December 2020

MAAS CLI-only machine creation

MAAS Cloud and server

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
2 December 2020

Bill Wear
30 November 2020

CLI-only MAAS operation

MAAS Cloud and server

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...

Bill Wear
30 November 2020

Canonical
21 October 2020

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

Article Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
21 October 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
29 June 2020

Data centre automation for HPC

Webinar Cloud and server

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...

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
29 June 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
24 June 2020

MAAS 2.8 – new features

Article MAAS

What’s new? This new release of MAAS brings three key new benefits: Virtual machines with LXD (Beta) Tighter, more responsive UX External/remote PostgreSQL database If you know what you want, go to maas.io/install, otherwise let’s dive in and explore these further. Virtual machines (VMs) with LXD (Beta) MAAS 2.8 can set...

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
24 June 2020

H Wilkins
19 June 2020

Making the MAAS machine list fast with React

Article Design

We have been transitioning the web interface for MAAS from AngularJS to React. One of the reasons for this is to make the interface faster. The main page with performance issues is the list of machines. This list needs to be fast at displaying a few hundred machines at a bare minimum. So what happens

H Wilkins
19 June 2020

Kit Randel
4 June 2020

Building a cross-framework UI with single-spa in MAAS 2.8

Article Design

A new machine list, and a new framework In MAAS 2.8, we’re shipping a new machine list, built from the ground up in React and Redux. We’ve also implemented a few new features: persisting UI state for grouping, new grouping options, bookmarkable urls with filter and search parameters, and many performance improvements. ...

Kit Randel
4 June 2020

Canonical
16 April 2020

You are invited to the virtual Ubuntu Masters event

Telecommunications Cloud and server

The Ubuntu Masters Conference is a platform for IT practitioners to share how they are solving industry-wide challenges with the global engineering community. These are the real-life use cases they are executing in their professional environments today, giving you actionable ideas to take into your own corporate...

Canonical
16 April 2020

Bill Wear
11 March 2020

MAAS controller communication

MAAS Cloud and server

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
11 March 2020

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