MAAS detects and inventories all the disks, in every server. You’ll have a single database of every model and serial number. MAAS tests disks either non-destructively or destructively, with short or long write cycles, and learns about their performance.

MAAS (Metal as a Service) offers cloud style provisioning for physical servers. It is open source and free to use, with commercial support available from Canonical.

MAAS (Metal as a Service) is a cloud platform for managing bare metal servers and virtual machines. It provides a single point of control for scalable automation, reconfiguration, and reliability of networks, machines and OS images.

In MAAS, configauth is a command used to configure authentication settings for the MAAS system, specifically for managing API keys and user credentials. This command is primarily used to manage how users authenticate when interacting with MAAS via the CLI, API, and web UI.

MAAS (Metal as a Service) offers cloud style provisioning for physical servers. It is open source and free to use, with commercial support available from Canonical.

In MAAS, configauth is a command used to configure authentication settings for the MAAS system, specifically for managing API keys and user credentials. This command is primarily used to manage how users authenticate when interacting with MAAS via the CLI, API, and web UI.

MAAS, NTP, and chrony. Conflicts can arise between Ubuntu’s default systemd-timesyncd and MAAS chrony. Consult the MAAS installation guide for solutions. Test environment. Requirements for a single-host test setup include the latest two Ubuntu LTS releases and the following component settings:

Prior to version 3.5, MAAS used custom log files for different components of the MAAS architecture. In version 3.5, all logging has been transferred to the standard systemd logs. This page gives a summary of how to access runtime logging for both version groups.

The minimum requirements for the machines that run MAAS vary widely depending on local implementation and usage. Below, you will find resource estimates based on MAAS components and operating system (Ubuntu Server).

Find a machine’s system ID. Everything in MAAS revolves around the system ID, which is easily located. UI. Machines > [machine] Check browser URL: ...machine/<SYSTEM_ID>/summary) CLI. maas admin machines read | jq -r '(["HOSTNAME","SYSID"] | (., map(length*"-"))),(.[] | [.hostname, .system_id]) | @tsv' | column -t List machines