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# Blog posts tagged "bare-metal provisioning"

#### [Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-ai-evolution-combining-maas-and-nvidia-smartnics)

It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards providing advanced s

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AI

#### [Linux deployment tools: MAAS 3.1 for hot metal](https://canonical.com/blog/linux-deployment-tool-for-hot-metal)

Back a few months ago, we did a feature poll on our MAAS forum, and the most-requested new feature turned out to be “Recommission/rescan a machine after it has been deployed“. With the release of MAAS 3.1, we’ve added that feature, making MAAS an even better choice for linux deployment tools. Here’s a sample of

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Cloud and server

#### [Announcing MAAS 3.1: bare metal cloud gets easier](https://canonical.com/blog/announcing-maas-3-1)

We are happy to announce that MAAS 3.1 has been released. Bare metal provisioning just got even easier! MAAS 3.1 brings some of the most frequently-requested features into the product. A lot of this is serendipity — or maybe you could say that it’s about like minds tracking the same problem. Either way, we’re doing

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Cloud and server