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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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juju - OpenStack Charms Deployment Guide - "ERROR... failed to bootstrap model"

Any assistance would be much appreciated; I searched through many posts and have found no answers yet. I have been following this guide: https://docs.openstack.org/project-deploy-guide/charm-...
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"Guest has not initialized the display yet". when starting to run VM that is ppc64el

Explanation: I work for IBM and trying to prototype netboot (pxe) for ubuntu. The goal is to have a maas deployment server deploy out to 4 VMs managed under ubuntu 14.0.4 to test out juju bundle #39 (...
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Clients get the Image but don’t appear on the MaaS’s GUI under Machines

since a couple of days, I have been using the MaaS, it looks brilliant tool, but sadly there is less online know-how resources, especially the version 3.4. The documentations are also not much ...
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Resolving LXD Storage and Interface Cleanup Challenges

Introduction: Greetings, LXD Community! We recently encountered some storage and interface cleanup challenges while deploying Charmed Kubernetes on a virtual machine. In this blog post, we'll walk you ...
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cloud-init-nonet

I have the problem someone pointed in the forum. But I see everyone have this problem with VM machines. In my case is with bare metal: When I start the machine I see cloud-init-nonet waiting for ...
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Canonical MAAS offline installation [duplicate]

I need to install Canonical’s maas OFFLINE but I cannot find any information about how to do so. I’d have preferred to use RPM packages but seem to be forced into using SNAP. I have therefore ...
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How can we increase Commissioning/Deploying timeout for nodes in MAAS?

I'm emulating ARM virtual machines on x86_64. While commissioning those VMs, I'm hitting timeouts (after 20 mins) causing 'Failed commissioning' error. In /usr/share/maas/maas/settings.py, ...
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Error on installing OpenStack

I'm going to install new OpenStack infrastructure as below. The instructions are located at https://ubuntu.com/openstack/install#single-multi-large-cluster . 3 HP server DL380 G7, each one has 2 CPU ...
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Need some help with a Deployment issue within maas ,Maas is already installed and all compute nodes are in a ready state , mdadm error

This is the Error i receive when the deployments runs, is this a permission error or multipath issue ? , i have tried many unsuccessful fixes Current device storage tree: sda |-- md127 -- md126 sdb |--...
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how to find out what versions of maas maas-dns and maas-dhcp from terminal

i would like to know how do you find out what version of maas is running on my ubuntu 14.4 installation what command is used to find maas api version, maas-dns, maas dhcp. please be specific. thanks
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Canonical MaaS utilisation on large machines

Apologies if I'm asking something that's been covered before - my search didn't bring anything up. From what I have seen on Canonical MaaS on bare metal, we provision the whole server with a single OS ...
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Changing machine's IP address after deploy phase for MaaS

Once we have deployed the machine using MaaS, the machine's interface cannot be edited anymore. Is there a way to change the IP of the machine after we deploy it using MaaS and still ensure MaaS is ...
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canonical charm openStack deployment , With AWS

Canonical charm openstack deployment with AWS for testing this deployment working perporly or not. the component: os ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Openstack version :ussari, maas 2.9 , juju 2.8.8 . 1.with this ...
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How to deploy ramdisk image on to disk less nodes using MAAS?

I am using MAAS version 1.7.6 with ubuntu 14.04. Currently MAAS can deploy ubuntu/centos images on to the nodes by installing into local disk. I want to deploy my disk less nodes with ramdisk image. ...
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How to build a computing cloud for scientific computing?

I have 5 computers with 4GB of RAM and 4 cores. I would like to create a cloud where there is only one virtual machine that has 20 cores and 20GB of RAM or something close to this. I should be able ...
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Why does the MAAS Proxy service keep dying when run in LXC?

My MAAS controller keeps toggling back and forth between showing that the proxy service is working and has failed (and therefore it can not commission new machines): Other details: This is MAAS 3.2 (...
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How can I deploy a new ssh key to hosts after adding it in the maas admin account?

I generated a new ssh rsa key pair. I added the public key to the MAAS Admin "user preferences" => "SSH keys". How do I push that new key to the maas nodes?
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MaaS: Problems with enlisting nodes

I recently started using MaaS 3.0.0 (up from 2.4). I was able to enlist, commission, and deploy nodes up until today when I started getting the following when I tried to enlist some nodes: Can not ...
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MAAS No MBR magic after deploy Ubuntu

I have tried to deploy the Openstack-base bundle from juju, and I've tried straight deploy Ubuntu 18.04 from MAAS. After the bare metal hardware goes through the full intall of Ubuntu, when it reboots,...
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How to solve the problem of unmet dependencies on Ubuntu-22.04

Basically, when I am trying to upgrade my ubuntu I got this error saying : christian@christian-HP-EliteBook-840-G3:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... ...
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MAAS Distributed setup issues

Consider this scenario: Diagram MAAS Region Controller: In AWS, IP Range 10.8.0.0/16 Ubuntu 20.04 MAAS 3.2, Snap installation MAAS Rack Controller 1: In Office 1, IP Range 10.9.100.0/24 Ubuntu 20....
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Parallel Computing

Very new to Linux so here is what i'm trying to do. i'm trying to connect 3 computers to have them work as one for more memory and more
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Using isc-dhcp-server along side an existing DHCP server for PXE

This may be more of a networking question but very long story short, I'm in the process of setting up a PXEBoot server (TFTP/HTTP) to automate network installs of Linux and the last thing I need to do/...
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Canonical Landscape Package Search daemon

I've a problem with my Landscape Server. Month ago I installed Canonical Landscape quickstart 18.04 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The reason that I don't use the last version is, adding the repository doesn't ...
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MAAS error while commisioning a physical server

While making commision for the added server, I got the error below: Failed to query node's BMC - (root) - No rack controllers can access the BMC of node node-1 Note: I used MAAS version 3.1 and a ...
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force juju to run deployment again

I was deploying openstack bundle using juju and maas and it failed. So i found the problem on maas configuration and made a fix there. but when I try to deploy the bundle again juju says: No changes ...
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Charmed-Kubernates

I have installed Charmed-Kubernates with snap rolling the following instructions....https://ubuntu.com/blog/kubernetes-on-a-single-machine I all started up apart from nginx I asked it to use the ...
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MAAS - logging into nodes after deploy

I have MAAS working in my home and it is brilliant. I followed this guide, https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/03/06/maas-for-the-home, just not using lxd. I need to know how to log in to nodes after a ...
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MAAS 2.6.0 import already deployed machine

I have some older already deployed machines in environment. Is there any way how to import them into MAAS? I have tried to commission and acquire machines, but they still end up booting "commission" ...
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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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Homelab with Maas and LXD

I have installed maas as recommended here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLADei_c9Qg https://github.com/antongisli/maas-baremetal-k8s-tutorial/blob/main/maas-setup.sh The host ip address is 10.0.0.2....
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Is there a way for MaaS to Commission a Raspberry Pi 3B?

I have a small lab (literally) of 3 RBP-3B units with SATA and SD drives attached running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I have installed software on them to create a Ceph cluster but its tricky and pretty ...
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Can't bootstrap with Juju due to " error back from server: 401 UNAUTHORIZED"

I have this little MAAS with only one node ready to deploy (Ubuntu 12.04 Precise pangolin). I was trying to set up the Juju environment, but I continuously get this error: $ juju bootstrap Bootstrap ...
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Selecting network interface in MAAS

I'm installing Ubuntu OpenStack: The Canonical Distribution and at one stage of installation it asks me: Please select a network interface that is not currently listening to any DHCP or DSN requests. ...
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How to restart MAAS

I can't work out how to restart MAAS, can anyone help? There's nothing in /etc/init.d that I can see. Thanks, Richard
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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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Accidentally installed MAAS Debian packages alongside MAAS snap

Not able to install or uninstall packages due to the following error: Preparing to unpack .../maas-common_1%3a3.0.0-10029-g.986ea3e45-0ubuntu1~20.04.1_all.deb ... ERROR: The MAAS Debian packages may ...
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Unable to see device on MaaS

I tried to PXE boot an Intel NUC using a MaaS server and got the following message: cloud-init[1498]: Can not apply stage final, no datasource found! Likely bad things to come! After this message ...
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How does curtin, cloud-init and the ephemeral image work?

I wanted to understand how dos cloud-init, curtin and the ephemeral image work together. I’m trying to write the role of each in the MAAS architecture. Cloud-init has two configuration sources: Cloud ...
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juju k8s-core deployment: Waiting for CNI plugins to become available

I am struggling with installation of juju kubernetes-core charm I have setup three environments: juju-controller juju add-cloud manual added two focal Ubuntu 4 CPU 4GB RAM Then I ran: juju deploy --...
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What is MAAS hard disk requirement(s) for Openstack deployment? RAID or JBOD?

Am following openstack wallaby charm deployment guide and am stuck on the physical hard disk requirements. From the documentation it says: 4 x cloud nodes: 8GiB RAM, 2 CPUs, 2 NICs, 3 x 80GiB storage ...
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my charmed kubernetes stuck in wait for 3 kube-system

I am just installed charmed kubernetes with juju on top of maas which my maas is built on kvm and when my charmed complete the master nods stuck in wait for 3 kube-system
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Infiniband + Maas?

I'm looking at setting up an HPC based on Mellanox Infiniband rather than Ethernet. Because I have many nodes to manage, I was looking at trying something new, like MAAS. I know Infiniband cards ...
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MAAS can't download boot images

On my MAAS Gui and "Images" I've got these errors Boot image import process not started. Nodes will not be able to provision without boot images. Visit the boot images page to start the import. ...
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MAAS can't apt update

I'm setting up MAAS for our workstations and it's going great! I've deployed a test VM with it. The only thing that doesn't work is apt. I can't perform an apt update. It looks for 172-16-0-0--16....
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Is Ubuntu MAAS only for Servers?

I'm trying to get my head around using Ubuntu MAAS as a means to deploy clients. All the documentation I see exclusively mentions servers. Can I use the MAAS platform to deploy a regular Ubuntu ...
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Getting an initial error after maas setup

Getting error: ubuntu xenial is configured as the commissioning release but it is unavailable in the configured streams This is a brand new one to me as I have set up maas many times, so it must be ...
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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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Can't acccess MAAS dashboard UI

I followed the installation instructions and was unable to access the web UI properly after having logged in. The web page is stuck on "Loading MAAS..." and the dashboard is never shown. The current ...
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MAAS cloud-init hanging due to systemd-resolved?

We're observing some weirdness when using MAAS (version 2.8 in this case). The machines get systemd-resolved configured after deployment (using an ansible role) and from that point every system reboot ...

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