December 22, 2022

Install MaaS 3.2 for PoC

Server specifications:

4 vCPUs
8192 MB RAM
32 GB HDD

Install Ubuntu 20.04 with ‘openstack’ user

Configure user ‘openstack’ to be able to run sudo command without being asked for password

echo "openstack ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" | sudo tee \
/etc/sudoers.d/openstack

Update and upgrade Ubuntu

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Install MaaS

sudo snap install --channel=3.2/stable maas

Install test database for PoC

sudo snap install maas-test-db

Initialize MaaS as region and rack controllers using maas-test-db

sudo maas init region+rack --database-uri maas-test-db:///

Use default value for MaaS URL – just press enter

MAAS URL [default=http://10.6.10.10:5240/MAAS]: 
MAAS has been set up.             

If you want to configure external authentication or use
MAAS with Canonical RBAC, please run

  sudo maas configauth

To create admins when not using external authentication, run

  sudo maas createadmin

To enable TLS for secured communication, please run

  sudo maas config-tls enable

Create administrator user

sudo maas createadmin

Use ‘admin’ as username and ‘passw0rd’ as password, enter valid email address, and leave blank for SSH key import

Username: admin
Password: 
Again: 
Email: dhariady@pansolusi.com
Import SSH keys [] (lp:user-id or gh:user-id):

To check status

sudo maas status

Sample output

bind9                            RUNNING   pid 2539, uptime 0:06:00
dhcpd                            STOPPED   Not started
dhcpd6                           STOPPED   Not started
http                             RUNNING   pid 2909, uptime 0:05:23
ntp                              RUNNING   pid 2724, uptime 0:05:29
proxy                            RUNNING   pid 2997, uptime 0:05:18
rackd                            RUNNING   pid 2542, uptime 0:06:00
regiond                          RUNNING   pid 2543, uptime 0:06:00
syslog                           RUNNING   pid 2723, uptime 0:05:29

Open browser and enter MAAS URL above (http://10.6.10.10:5240/MAAS) and login using your username and password