Explanation
Understand MAAS better through three key areas: machine life-cycle, MAAS-managed infrastructure, and reliability tools.
Machines
Machines are the core component of MAAS and the primary driver of the provisioning workflow.
- Learn how MAAS defines a machine and views its capabilities.
- Get familiar with the machine life-cycle, which prescribes how machines move through the provisioning process.
- Conceptualize commissioning – how MAAS gathers the hardware information needed for later deployment.
- Discover all the ways you can customize deployment to suit your use case.
- Find out about deployment and why it’s valuable to also deploy already-provisioned machines.
- Learn about LXD projects to simplify VM deployments.
- Understand the value and utility of grouping machines.
MAAS-managed infrastructure
MAAS nuances networking with a pre-configured set of tools, designed to make provisioning more convenient and less error-prone.
- Network discovery reveals every network device that MAAS can see.
- MAAS configures DHCP to handle a specific network booting process, so that machines can boot in a controlled way.
- MAAS also manages DNS and NTP for more efficient provisioning.
- MAAS defines some unique convenience constructs, such as spaces and fabrics, that influence how you design and plan your provisioning networks.
- Many other MAAS network customizations are worth discovering.
- Region and rack controllers do the heavy-lifting of maintaining your data centers.
- Take inventory of the available OS images, including standard images, a number of established custom images with build instructions, and a general purpose tool to create many other custom images.
Reliability tools
Keep your data center intact and reliable.
- Take stock of where we stand with MAAS performance.
- Learn about the MAAS catalog of events for auditing and debugging issues.
- Dive deep into the MAAS logging domain to understand what is captured.
- Get a better handle on the thinking behind MAAS security to help you design and maintain a hardened stance.