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21 posts
A better way to provision NVIDIA BlueField DPUs at scale with MAAS
By David Beamonte, 19 December 2025
The recent release of MAAS 3.7 introduces a significant new capability: the ability to provision NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs) directly...
Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation
By David Beamonte, 26 June 2025
Data centers don’t have to be power-hungry monsters. With smart automation using tools like MAAS, you can reduce energy waste and operational costs, and make...
About MAAS 3.0 and LXD
By Bill Wear, 19 August 2021
With the release of MAAS 3.0, we moved LXD virtual machines out of Beta. Several articles in the MAAS documentation address LXD. Since no document ties all...
DHCP Server Conflict Detection
By Bill Wear, 8 July 2021
This blog title should really be, “Why you always, always, always want conflict detection turned on on all the networks MAAS touches,” but that’s really long...
DHCP scope
By Bill Wear, 8 July 2021
It’s possible to have more than one DHCP server on the same network and still have everything work right, with no conflicts and no dropped packets or IP...
Moving toward Diátaxis
By Bill Wear, 7 July 2021
We discovered the Diátaxis Framework earlier this year. It’s been on our roadmap to shift MAAS doc to this cool new way of explaining things. This cycle, we...
MAAS 3.0 released
By Bill Wear, 6 July 2021
We are happy to announce the release of MAAS 3.0. This release provides some new features and bug fixes. Here’s the tl;dr summary: PCI and USB devices are now...
Basic DHCP concepts
By Bill Wear, 17 June 2021
Let’s step back and take a very basic look at DHCP. In fact, let’s look at the analogy of assigning a street address to your house. Usually, this is done by...
Improving CLI output with jq
By Bill Wear, 6 January 2021
Welcome back to our series on MAAS CLI operations. In our previous post, we learned how to acquire and deploy machines using the MAAS CLI. It was also evident...
MAAS 2.9 is now available
By Bill Wear, 10 December 2020
Canonical is happy to announce that MAAS 2.9 is now available. We’ll get to the details of installing it in just a moment, but first, let’s walk through a...
MAAS CLI-only machine deployment
By Bill Wear, 8 December 2020
Continuing in our series on CLI-only MAAS operation, it’s time to deploy machines. In the previous post, we reached the point of creating and commissioning...