MAAS archives
44 posts
AI on premise: benefits and a predictive-modeling use case
By aymen frikha, 24 March 2021
Running an Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure on premise has major challenges like high capex and requires internal expertise. It can provide a lot...
Data centre automation for HPC
By Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, 29 June 2020
Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks....
MAAS 2.8 – new features
By Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, 24 June 2020
What’s new? This new release of MAAS brings three key new benefits: Virtual machines with LXD (Beta) Tighter, more responsive UX External/remote PostgreSQL...
Making the MAAS machine list fast with React
By Huw Wilkins, 19 June 2020
We have been transitioning the web interface for MAAS from AngularJS to React. One of the reasons for this is to make the interface faster. The main page with...
Building a cross-framework UI with single-spa in MAAS 2.8
By Kit Randel, 4 June 2020
A new machine list, and a new framework In MAAS 2.8, we’re shipping a new machine list, built from the ground up in React and Redux. We’ve also implemented a...
You are invited to the virtual Ubuntu Masters event
By Canonical, 16 April 2020
The Ubuntu Masters Conference is a platform for IT practitioners to share how they are solving industry-wide challenges with the global engineering community....
LXD pod commissioning data
By Bill Wear, 15 April 2020
MAAS is built to manage machines, including the operating systems on those machines. Enlistment and commissioning are features that make it easier to start...
Questioning the doc
By Bill Wear, 9 April 2020
Here’s a VLOG about some changes we’re making to the MAAS documentation. It’s all about using questions at the top of articles to help direct attention. This...
Edge AI in a 5G world – part 3: Why ‘smart cell towers’ matter to AI
By Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, 2 April 2020
This is part of a blog series on the impact that 5G and GPUs at the edge will have on the roll out of new AI solutions. You can read the other posts here....
SBI Group unlocks infrastructure automation with secure, on-premises OpenStack cloud
By Alex Cattle, 17 March 2020
SBI BITS provides IT services and infrastructure to the SBI Group — Japan’s market leading financial services company group — which is made up of over 250...
MAAS controller communication
By Bill Wear, 11 March 2020
Much of the functionality of MAAS is contained in controllers. There are two basic types: a region controller and a rack controller. It’s useful to pull back...
Quick-add KVMs for MAAS
By Bill Wear, 25 February 2020
When designing or testing with MAAS, it’s often handy to start with virtual machines. If you’re just on your laptop, and you want to check out a new MAAS...