MAAS documentation

https://docs.ubuntu.com/maas/2.1/en/

MAAS documentation

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Introduction

https://docs.ubuntu.com/maas/2.1/en/

Management summary

What is
MAAS?

Concepts and terms

MAAS is Metal As A

Architectural overview

Service. It lets you treat

About MAAS

VERSIONS
2.0

2.1

physical servers like

Install & Congure

virtual machines
(instances) in the cloud.
Rather than having to

Manage MAAS
Troubleshoot
Release notes

CONTENTS
What MAAS offers
How MAAS works

manage each server

Key components and

individually, MAAS turns

colocation of all

your bare metal into an

services

elastic cloud-like

Installation methods

resource.

Minimum
requirements

Machines can be quickly

Developer guide

provisioned and then

destroyed again as

API documentation

easily as you can with

instances in a public
cloud like Amazon AWS,

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Google GCE, and

Microsoft Azure, among

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others.
MAAS can act as a
standalone PXE/preseed
service or it can be
integrated with other
technologies. In
particular, it is designed
to work especially well
with Juju, the service
and model management
service. It's a perfect
arrangement: MAAS
manages the machines
and Juju manages the

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https://docs.ubuntu.com/maas/2.1/en/

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