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Metal as a Service – MAAS – lets you treat physical servers like virtual machines in the cloud. Rather than having to manage each server individually, MAAS turns your bare metal into an elastic cloud-like resource.

MAAS "Metal as a Service" is similar to IAAS "Infrastructure as a Service" as it allows a new machine to be provisioned. The difference is that IAAS normally refers to virtual machines, MAAS is designed to provision bare metal. This means bring a bare metal server with no operating system install to a completely working server ready for the user to deploy services on.

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Is Ubuntu MAAS free?

Ubuntu MAAS, very cool, awesome in fact, looks like a unique tool for several jobs. It looks free, but part of its documentation starts already with clauses that would scare anyone with interest in it: Documentation is copy righted by…
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How do I use MAAS custom commissioning scripts?

I am attempting to use a custom MAAS commissioning script to perform custom operations on my MAAS cluster. When do these scripts run? How should they be named? Do they need to be in a particular format, or can they be executable shell scripts or…
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What is the MAAS node login?

I have a problem, when I want to login in nodes. My nodes are created via MAAS dashboard, where I'm adding nodes. But when installation completes I'm asking to login and password to get into the node. But they wasn't shown or I missing something. I…
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What is the default password for the MaaS Image?

What is the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS image password? I installed it as a node of Ubuntu maas with cobbler. It retrieved packages over Internet and installed it. I have just ssh public key, but I do not have password or other credentials. Can I obtain it…
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Can I make a "choice image list" in MAAS UBUNTU?

I just want to know if I can make a kind of menu choice list where the node can choose from the OS they want? so instead of automatically runs the Ubuntu 16.04 image you assigned to it, you give it multiple images and the node user would just…
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what is maas exactly?

i'm quite a newb on this subject and this is my first attempt. I could't find much documentation about what MAAS is exactly. I made my own MAAS server and 1 node is now added and allocated. SSH works with the node etc. But now I wonder... what can I…
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How can I install another Operating System through MAAS?

I want to install CentOS and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 using MAAS. How can it be achieved? I have already installed MAAS server on a single machine.
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How to change the MaaS server ip address?

I'm experiencing MaaS using VirtualBox. I had the MaaS server installed fine based on the wiki. The VirtualBox VM has two network interfaces, eth0 for NAT, eth1 for Host Only. The MaaS server picked eth0, so I followed the wiki instruction to change…
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MAAS: disable iSCSI, or require authentication?

We're using MAAS to manage our cluster. Nessus complains that our MAAS region controller is insecure, because it exposes iSCSI targets on its public IP without authentication. Here's what Nessus says: 3260/tcp 51368 - iSCSI Unauthenticated Target…
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How do I create custom RHEL image for Ubuntu MAAS?

I'd like to create custom image to deploy RHEL by Ubuntu MAAS, but it seems maas-image-builder is deprecated and it doesn't support to build RHEL image. Does anyone have idea to build custom image for Ubuntu MAAS?
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Using HTTPS with MAAS web interface login redirects to HTTP

I need to use HTTPS for login into MAAS web interface. But when I goto https:// ip-of-maas /MAAS/, it redirects you to http:// ip-of-maas /MAAS/accounts/login/?next=%2FMAAS%2F which makes HTTPS useless as password will be transported in plain…
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Maas doesn't install node

I'm installing Maas server with an external dhcp server. I have used Ubuntu Server 12.10 and the MAAS Daily Builds ppa repository. I have created the admin account and I ran the sudo maas-import-pxe-files command without errors. The MAAS web…
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How do I delete a node from MAAS after removing it from Cobbler?

I've installed ubuntu maas server, and a couple of nodes. Everything went right, just for one node, now with status "Allocated to...". Question is, how do i delete this node. I've tried following : cobbler system remove --name=xxx The node seems to…
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Is one node + MAAS possible?

Presently I have two machines wanting to join a private cloud an hp i386 & dell amd64. Installing the MAAS in the dell and attempting to add the hp as a node yields Unable to create Node: Unknown problem encountered with the Cobbler server like:…
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How do I modify the pxe config in MAAS?

I'm using MAAS, during the commissioning step, I have full error on the screen timeout: killing /sbin/modprobe -bv pci I investigated a little and apparently it's an acpi issue. So I tried to change and add a parameter to this file…
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