init¶

Initialise MAAS in the specified run mode.

maas init [-h] {region+rack,region,rack} ...

Command-line options¶

Option	Effect
-h, –help	show this help message and exit.

Run modes¶

Mode	Effect
region+rack	Both region and rack controllers
region	Region controller only
rack	Rack controller only

When installing region or rack+region modes, MAAS needs a PostgreSQL database to connect to.

If you want to set up PostgreSQL for a non-production deployment on this machine, and configure it for use with MAAS, you can install the maas-test-db snap before running maas init:

sudo snap install maas-test-db
sudo maas init region+rack --database-uri maas-test-db:///

rack¶

Initialise MAAS to run only a rack controller.

maas init rack [-h] [--maas-url MAAS_URL] [--secret SECRET] [--force]

Command-line options¶

Option	Effect
-h, –help	show this help message and exit.
–maas-url	URL that MAAS should use for communicate from the nodes to MAAS and other controllers of MAAS.
–secret	Secret token required for the rack controller to talk to the region controller(s). Only used when in ‘rack’ mode.
–force	Skip confirmation questions when initialization has already been performed.

region¶

Initialise MAAS to run only a region controller.

maas init region [-h] [--maas-url MAAS_URL]
                        [--database-uri DATABASE_URI] [--vault-uri VAULT_URI]
                        [--vault-approle-id VAULT_APPROLE_ID]
                        [--vault-wrapped-token VAULT_WRAPPED_TOKEN]
                        [--vault-secrets-path VAULT_SECRETS_PATH]
                        [--vault-secrets-mount VAULT_SECRETS_MOUNT] [--force]

Command-line options¶

Option	Effect
-h, –help	show this help message and exit.
–maas-url	URL that MAAS should use for communicate from the nodes to MAAS and other controllers of MAAS.
–database-uri	URI for the MAAS Postgres database in the form of postgres://user:pass@host:port/dbname or maas-test-db:///. For maas-test-db:/// to work, the maas-test-db snap needs to be installed and connected.
–vault-uri	Vault URI.
–vault-approle-id	Vault AppRole Role ID.
–vault-wrapped-token	Vault Wrapped Token for AppRole ID.
–vault-secrets-path	Path prefix for MAAS secrets in Vault KV storage.
–vault-secrets-mount	Vault KV mount path.
–force	Skip confirmation questions when initialization has already been performed.

region+rack¶

Initialise MAAS to run both a region and rack controller.

maas init region+rack [-h] [--maas-url MAAS_URL]
                             [--database-uri DATABASE_URI]
                             [--vault-uri VAULT_URI]
                             [--vault-approle-id VAULT_APPROLE_ID]
                             [--vault-wrapped-token VAULT_WRAPPED_TOKEN]
                             [--vault-secrets-path VAULT_SECRETS_PATH]
                             [--vault-secrets-mount VAULT_SECRETS_MOUNT]
                             [--force]

Command-line options¶

Option	Effect
-h, –help	show this help message and exit.
–maas-url	URL that MAAS should use for communicate from the nodes to MAAS and other controllers of MAAS.
–database-uri	URI for the MAAS Postgres database in the form of postgres://user:pass@host:port/dbname or maas-test-db:///. For maas-test-db:/// to work, the maas-test-db snap needs to be installed and connected.
–vault-uri	Vault URI.
–vault-approle-id	Vault AppRole Role ID.
–vault-wrapped-token	Vault Wrapped Token for AppRole ID.
–vault-secrets-path	Path prefix for MAAS secrets in Vault KV storage.
–vault-secrets-mount	Vault KV mount path.
–force	Skip confirmation questions when initialization has already been performed.