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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Frans,

Like Frans explained MAAS is Ubuntu Server builtin provisioning
solution. It stands for Metal-as-a-service and offers an API to
provision Ubuntu systems. Its integrated with Juju
(https://juju.ubuntu.com/) the service orchestration tool.

Juju+MAAS allows you to bootstrap an Openstack cloud easily on
bare-metal. The following page gives the instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuCloudInfrastructure

The version of 12.04 did use Cobbler under the hood, but this part was
replaced for 12.10.

Best regards

On 12-09-13 02:35 PM, Kevin Jackson wrote:
> Hi Frans,
> There's a wealth of info over at the MAAS website
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MAAS/.
> 
> It is Canonical's method for PXE booting and installing an OS so that a
> further service, called Juju, can be used to assign the functions/roles
> to a server that previously had nothing installed (bare metal).
> If you're familiar with Cobbler, it is that service with extra hooks to
> Juju.
> 
> With Juju you can allocate roles to your MAAS provisioned servers such
> as, be a Glance server, or Compute host in a very simple way similar to
> what apt does for installing packages on a server.
> 
> Regards,
> Kev
> 
> On Sep 13, 2012 5:27 PM, "Frans Thamura" <frans@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:frans@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     hi all
> 
>     can help me to understand MaaS, the bare metal cloud
> 
>     how OpenStack can run in a MaaS, and what is MaaS
> 
> 
>     thx in advanced
> 
>     F
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Francis J. Lacoste
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