MAAS (Metal as a Service) simplifies provisioning for bare-metal and virtual machines. It creates a single point of control for:
- Scalable automation: Maps networks/devices automatically, uses Curtin and cloud-init for setup consistency, and integrates DHCP, DNS, NTP, and TFTP seamlessly.
- Rapid reconfiguration: Enables fast OS image deployment, easy machine sorting with tags, and efficient use of zones and resource pools for resource management.
- High reliability: Provides built-in high availability and load balancing, with integrated monitoring and security, plus customised deployment scripts.
Especially valuable for sectors needing quick, flexible server changes (ISPs, telecommunications, disaster recovery, supercomputing), MAAS improves operations for any large data centre.
In this documentation
Serve our study | Serve our work |
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Tutorials Hands-on introductions to MAAS features |
How-to guides Step-by-step guides covering key operations |
Explanation Detailed theory on the inner workings of MAAS |
Reference Technical specifications |
Project and community
MAAS is a member of the Ubuntu family. It’s an open source project that warmly welcomes community projects, contributions, suggestions, fixes and constructive feedback.
- Read our code of conduct^
- Get support^
- Learn about MAAS performance
- Join our online chat
- Contribute code^
- Improve our documentation
- Request a feature
- Report a bug
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