MAAS Installation and Initial Configuration
Canonical’s MAAS production is an incredible piece of software. It provides the DHCP and PXE booting capabilities for physical servers to automatically handle some normally time-intensive, manual tasks such as: Taking an inventory of the RAM, HDDs, CPUs, etc. in a physical server Running some basic hardware and connectivity tests on the servers Updating and configuring the base management controller (BMC) Configuring an IPMI user to control power for the server remotely Configuring the physical server’s filesystem layout, network configuration, etc....