Questions tagged [maas]
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.
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how to run maas when network can't be connected
I am using maas to manage my bare metal
I found that when adding HOST to maas or through maas deploy host, maas or host must be able to connect to the Internet, otherwise the whole process will fail
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MAAS - Deploying workstations right away
I'm using MAAS to deploy workstations.
Because workstations don't have management tools like IPMI, I have to PXE boot the workstation for MAAS to catch it, then do it again for it to commission, and ...
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How to use maas to create disk partitions in batches
Hell All
I plan to use Maas to install the operating system (Ubuntu 20.04) on 100 servers
The default partition on Maas can't meet my needs. I need to use a custom partition
/boot/ 1G
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Figuring out why MAAS cannot connect to virsh
I'm trying to get MAAS to talk to virsh on localhost to not have to configure a whole extra physical machine to run deployment service juju on. MAAS seems to be able to deploy a virtual machine to ...
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curtin script: set size as remaining space on disk
I am using maas 2.9 on ubuntu 20.04 server os to install ubuntu 20.04 images.
Issue 1: how to create last partition with remaining space?
To create a custom storage configuration, I have added the ...
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MAAS: How to create / update a network interface for a new machine using CLI / API?
I was able to create a new machine using the MAAS API. The problem is, that there is the need to add / change the interface before commissioning which does not work.
Try 1: No mac_address during ...
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juju stops on "running machine configuration script" MAAS/JUJU/ real servers
i am getting this issue when doing juju bootstrap, please note that this is on a rack of 10 servers running MAAS,
and here it hangs for all eternity.
Creating Juju controller "maas-controller&...
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Bare metal backup
I'm renting out some bare metal machines and am finally starting to automate the process of provisioning.
The idea is to setup a few bare metal machines and manage them via MAAS. I would like to ...
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Maas custom curtin config failure on clearing disks at deployment stage
I've upgraded Maas to 2.7 and now we have this problem:
Detected holders during mdadm creation: ['md127']
An error occured handling 'mddevice0': OSError - [Errno Failed to remove holders from %...
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How to Backup and Restore Snap Version of MAAS
The documentation at https://maas.io/docs/backup doesn't describe how to backup and restore if you are using snaps and packages are now marked as deprecated. How do you back and restore a snap install ...
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Openstack Components not Fully Working
I deployed openstack bundle using juju(version 2.6.9-bionic-amd64) and this tutorial https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/charm-deployment-guide/latest/install-openstack-bundle.html.
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Service 'maas-proxy' failed and unable to locate pacakage lldpd during commissioning
I am stuck at MAAS 2.6 Commissioning and it fails due to lldpd install dependency.
The process fails at the commissioning phase where the new identified machine will change its state from New to Ready
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MAAS - Possible to apply certain cloud init or curtin scripts to only machines with certain tags?
I want to learn how to automatically provision certain boxes with specific curtin or cloud init scripts and control which machine gets what with tags. Is this common usage of MAAS and supported?
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MAAS - HP Proliant Gen 8 + Smart Array B320i storage not found
I tried to install the HP Gen8 server with the Smart Array B320i enabled where I created an RAID 1 array. The commissioning of the node is going okay.
But with the Hardware tests I got the following ...
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juju controller bootstrap failure on MAAS node added on ESXi VM?
I am trying to deploy open-stack with juju and MAAS following the open-stack docs https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/charm-deployment-guide/rocky/install-juju.html
My environment is ...
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Expand Ubuntu OpenStack cloud
I'm use MaaS + conjure-up to install my Ubuntu OpenStack cloud in 8 servers. But now i purshase another server, how can I add to the OpenStack Cloud?
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Putting MaaS behind firewall
I can't find anything about the ports to be opened on iptables to protect a MaaS (Region and Rack controller all in one).
Anyone have tried this ?
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Connection refused Maas Web UI
I have a problem with getting MaaS to work. At first I installed through snap, and met some errors, but figured it was due to being an experimental build. So now I have installed through packages (...
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juju MAAS machines dns-name ip address
Is there a way to pick a DNS A record for machines added using juju machine or annotations that can be used in bundle?
For example, I need "dns-name: 10.146.x.x" instead of "dnsname: 10.127.0.1".
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Series "Bionic" is not supported by charm, supported series are: Xenial,Trusty,Yakkety
I am trying to deploy Openstack using juju and also deploy bundle.yaml on Ubuntu 18.04. It fails with the error
cannot deploy bundle: series "bionic" not supported by charm, supported series are: ...
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How to configure JuJu Charms to automatically recover from machine failure?
I have a charm that can only run 1 unit, that is working great. When I deploy this charm, a machine is created via MAAS, the unit for my charm is installed and it runs just fine.
What I want to do is ...
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Getting TFTP timeout in a Fuel / MAAS configuration
We have a site that is utilizing Fuel/MAAS for deployment. When attempting to PXE bootstrap the nodes we receive a "PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout". PXE is set over a private lan and there is no ...
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Maas nodes stuck on Deploying state
I am using MAAS version 2.4.0 (6981-g011e51b7a-0ubuntu1~18.04.1) on my setup. I have three Dell poweredge R420 servers. I have created 3 vms on each by using virt-manager. Allocated 8 Gb ram, 4 CPUs ...
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Does stable release of MAAS on Ubuntu 18.04.1 support Cavium ThunderX2 (ARM-based) server?
On my setup, MAAS server can power on/off the appliance. Commissioning failed. Machine summary shows CPU/Memory/Storage unknown.
Looked inside a wireshark trace, communication between MAAS server and ...
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MAAS server won't recongnize nodes
I'm a newbie on researching and deploy MAAS Server with Juju and Openstack.
I installed Ubuntu Server 16.04 on VMWare Workstation with 2 NIC: 1 of them is external network with Bridge Mode with IP ...
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MAAS based on ubuntu18.04, nodes can not connect to the public network
MAAS 2.4 is based on Ubuntu 18.04.
I have both my master and nodes, connect to the public network and private network.
My router provides DHCP on 172.16.199.0/24 (Public Network, Gateway 172.16.199.1,...
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LVM and dm_crypt with MAAS mounting issue
I'm trying to have MAAS/Curtin encrypt a single drive on deployment and so far I'm hitting some roadblocks when implementing encryption using the dm_crypt module from curtin.
I can have curtin setup ...
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Network Error MAAS
I can not get MAAS to deploy a node. I can power the node off and on. I get the error below.
Error:Node failed to be deployed, because of the following error: {"network": ["Node has no address family ...
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MAAS on KVM - problem with PXE boot
MAAS version: 2.3.0 (6434-gd354690-0ubuntu1~16.04.1)
Running on:
kurt@ZEUS-01:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16....
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conjure up error while installation cannot retrieve charm
I am deploying ubuntu openstack.
in conjure-up after initialization and deployment of nodes Os, conjure up crashes with this error:
cannot retrieve charm "cs:openstack-dashboard-252": cannot get ...
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JuJu / Landscape OpenStack Install - No network listing for Open vSwitch
My set up has 8 physical machines, and 1 VM for MAAS.
My network is comprised of 3 subnets. 2 of them are untagged, and the third is tagged.
The first untagged network contains the 'public' IP for ...
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JUJU-MAAS controller problem
Greeting
Im trying to run OpenStack on couple of bare metal server's
MAAS is installed, vlan's were ok and for now im truing to run OpenStack default configuration.
However, after 1000 faulty attempt'...
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MAAS IPMI Problem
System Info:
MAAS 2.2.2
Ubuntu: xenial
IPMI works in console command:
ipmitool -I Lan -U xxxx -P xxxx -H x.x.x.x power status
Returns correct status of power
However MAAS interface with exact ...
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MAAS deploy is stuck at iscsistart connect to no route :3260 failed no route to host
While trying to deploy OS on nodes, MAAS deploy is repeatedly stuck at iscsistart connect to no route :3260 failed no route to host
Please see attached image for reference. How to resolve this issue?
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Deployment of OpenStack with Autopilot excessively slow (or perhaps nonfunctional)?
I'm having some trouble with an OpenStack Autopilot deployment. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with MAAS and conjure-up (according to the installation guide). I have a controller node and seven servers ...
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How do I get MAAS DHCP to listen on multiple interfaces?
We have MAAS configured and working quite well. Now we want it to offer DHCP leases across multiple interfaces and subnets (for our OpenStack installation), which we have configured through the web ...
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unable to pxe boot the nodes!
I am new to openstack,i am trying to set up a openstack environment,i was going to landscape and then conjure up,but i couldn't get my node to pxe boot,the error i was getting is "cloud init[1379] ...
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PfSense architecture for small business data center
Project is to collocate a Small DataCenter Structure (locally for development and Hosting purpose (WebServer)) behind PFsense Firewalls. We got some HP DL360 G5's ready to use for this, so ahead to ...
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Openstack services gets in hook-failed issues when deployed using JUJU
I deployed Openstack successfully using Juju Charm over MaaS servers. Openstack is up and running but after sometime some of the Units lands up into error/blocked state(i.e charm hook issues regarding ...
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whats wrong with juju!
I have been working on Juju for very long and haven't touch the config file or set any permissions on the file. I don't know why Juju is doing mad here. First it doesn't show the last charms and its ...
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Configuring maas-region-controller
When trying to install MAAS in a virtual machine, the following is displayed on the target's screen after running sudo apt-get install maas. The virtual machine is built by vagrant. Is there has any ...
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MAAS IPMI power password
I'm trying to run ipmipower -D LAN_2_0 -h 192.168.13.135 -u maas -p xxx --cycle --on-if-off command to verify why my MAAS node is failing to deploy an OS, but need to know the maas ipmi power password....
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How to add custom power type to MAAS 2.1.x to use PC power control using raspberry pi
I have built raspberry pi with Piface to control my physical pcs, I have server with Ubuntu 16.04 and installed MAAS 2.1.5 on it.
There was old post, how to build pc power control using ubuntu 14.x ...
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"sudo conjure-up --bootstrap-to juju" command is not working
This is my first time, i am trying to install openstack on ubuntu, using vms. I have a private network for PXE boot only managed by maas vm and have other vms as nodes. One vm which i want to setup ...
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Conjure-Up Landscape failure
I am current following this guide to test out Ubuntu's Autopilot setup.
The section of deploying Landscape is not working on my end, and am wondering if anyone can provide assistance.
I have a ...
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Maas deployment failes while commissioning works
I installed MAAS in our testing environment to try out OpenStack Autopilot.
Everything worked fine but when I try to deploy a node it ends up in "deployment failed - timeout after 40min".
When I take ...
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Install MAAS on productive system
I'm running 16.04 LTS with 3 VMs.
Got some other servers I might Cluster together with MAAS.
Is it possible to install on the Master productive machine the MAAS and cluster the different servers ...
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MAAS deployment without formatting secondary disks
I manage a cluster of computers used for scientific computing using MAAS 2.1. Each node has a 500GB SDD that holds the OS and serves as scratch space for computation. Additionally, each node has a ...
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Openstack Deployment on MAAS2.0
This is my first go at containers, so please bear with me. I tried to deploy openstack using MAAS2.0.
I setup the required machines ( 4 nodes + Juju Controller) and I followed the instructions on ...
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How to export configuration of maas (Metal as a service)
For a few days, I have performed some tests of automatic tool deployment of Canonical: Maas. I think it's very promising. But how can I save my configuration? And, if I have one save, how can I import ...
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