Another tool, maybe even more 'dedicated' for Ubuntu, would be Canonical MAAS, but I never used it personally. Source: 5 months ago
Ah, I see. Yes, that is entirely possible with some engineering effort. But then you’re building a system that behaves sort of like Kubernetes, in that it serves as an availability controller machines themselves. https://maas.io/ is probably the fastest way to get there. Source: 10 months ago
Instead look at bare metal K8s solutions. I wouldn't roll your own, look at Palette (https://www.spectrocloud.com/product) which has Canonical MAAS integration for bare metal K8s. Source: 10 months ago
As it's a homelab, I do want to use it for experiments as well. I like to explore new tech, to see how it works and if it could fit my professional life as well (I work as a tech lead / architect for an semi-ecommerce store). Playing with tools like proxmox, maas.io, is fun - just because you can. But then running proxmox on some of these machines..? Source: 11 months ago
I also use Ubuntu Server LTS in all my machines and it works perfectly fine, just install some utilities, check out RHEL Web Console for Ubuntu (aka cockpit) https://cockpit-project.org/ and the VM plugin (aka cockpit-machines), there is also a plugin to run containers and pods (aka cockpit-podman). You can also install MAAS https://maas.io/ wich is more related to Canonical/Ubuntu itself and uses LXC/LXD to do... Source: 11 months ago
Have you checked https://maas.io/? The documentation says is possible https://maas.io/tutorials/maas-esxi-quickstart#1-overview. Source: 12 months ago
Wow I just found this https://maas.io. Source: about 1 year ago
Is that a imaging or backup solution that you are trying to implement, hard to say. https://maas.io/ comes to mind but not sure what is your scale. Source: about 1 year ago
MAAS can do this, and can use cloud-init as well as commissioning scripts. You can do a LOT with cloud-init, much more than most people ever end up using. Source: about 1 year ago
With that much hardware, you can fancy a full "Bare Metal as a service" setup, with https://maas.io or likewise. Source: about 1 year ago
Maas.io is a solution for this, however idk if it natively supports raspberry pi. That would probably be proudly advertised if they did. Source: about 1 year ago
I haven't setup a PXE server in a long time. There are management tools like MaaS, Collins, Cobbler, etc that deal with the provisioning of systems. Source: over 1 year ago
I work for Canonical so a biased +1 for MAAS (Metal As A Service). It’s got a pretty great workflow where you PXE boot an unknown server and it “commissions” it by cataloguing all its hardware specs and running some hardware tests etc and adding it to the list of available services. It’s ready to deploy through the web interface, cli or API. That installs the OS and pre configures the network and storage and adds... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
You could use tools such as https://maas.io/ and Ansible to setup the software on your machines in an automated way. You can buy hardware from many vendors. Maybe Dell or HP(E) websites are a easy start. You are looking for a competent sysadmin I believe, but good luck to attract one with such a small setup. It’s probably not worth the cost anyway, and perhaps a few existing people in your team should do it... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I know there are solutions out there like MAAS for "at boot" / "from zero" provisioning, but I explained in another post that my goal was to simplify my approach - not add more tech stacks. Source: over 1 year ago
Something like https://maas.io/ might do you for baremetal deploys. Source: over 1 year ago
Haven't used it, but have heard https://maas.io/ recommended a few times. Source: over 1 year ago
I am currently working myself through setting up our new Research GPU-Cluster where we have "sort of" managed to deploy MAAS to manage all the servers more efficiently, and on top of MAAS then use Juju to deploy the further components of the cluster. The components here are. Source: over 1 year ago
Solutions like https://maas.io/ with Ansible using baseline configurations and such. For ESX you need partial host profiles in play for some stuff to make sure vSphere is sane for deployments that large. Source: almost 2 years ago
You should be using MAAS (https://maas.io). It supports Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows, VMware ESXi and (with community help), other operating systems. Source: almost 2 years ago
Just some old school CapEx metal in the homelab spinning up Kubernetes with terraform+maas+microk8s. Source: almost 2 years ago
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