<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body >I need to look into MaaS more but I think I remember hearing it uses IPMI.<br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Tom Metro <tmetro+hhacking@gmail.com> <br>Date: 05/25/2013 2:47 AM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: hardwarehacking@blu.org <br>Subject: [HH] Metal as a Service <br> <br><br>I just ran across Canonical's "Metal as a Service" (MAAS) project:<br>https://maas.ubuntu.com/<br><br>which apparently is a tool for managing a cluster of servers, though at<br>a lower level than what you typically see. It claims to offer similar<br>management functionality as you'd find in a cloud management tool, such<br>as the ability to spin up a node and load an OS image onto it, except in<br>thus case you're going to the bare metal instead of talking to a base OS<br>with a hypervisor.<br><br>It sounds like part of how it accomplishes this is by booting nodes over<br>the network but how does it bring up hardware that's been powered off?<br>Wake-on-LAN?<br><br>In any case, I was thinking it might be a useful tool for managing a<br>cluster of Raspberry Pi or other ARM boards.<br><br>Perhaps Federico has played around with this and can comment.<br><br>It supposedly can be used in conjunction with Canonical's Juju, which<br>I've seen described as "apt (apt-get) for the cloud." A tool to automate<br>deploying apps to multiple nodes in a cloud. (I believe Federico will be<br>giving a talk for BLU on Juju later this year.)<br><br> -Tom<br>_______________________________________________<br>Hardwarehacking mailing list<br>Hardwarehacking@blu.org<br>http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking<br></body>