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 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.

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.