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" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Francis J. Lacoste [email protected]
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