Andres Rodriguez

Andres Rodriguez

4 posts

Engineering Manager, MAAS

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration in MAAS

Article Cloud and server

In this blog, we are going to explore how to leverage MAAS for hardware discovery and kernel auto-configuration using tags. In many cases, certain pieces of hardware require extra kernel parameters to be set in order to make use of them. For example, when configuring GPU passthrough we will typically need to configure the GPU

Andres Rodriguez
12 September 2019

Andres Rodriguez
28 August 2019

Multi-tenancy in MAAS

Article Cloud and server

In this blog post, we are going to introduce the concept of multi-tenancy in MAAS. This allows operators to have different groups of users own a group of resources (machines) without ever even knowing about other groups of users enabling enhanced machine utilisation. A common use case for medium and large-scale...

Andres Rodriguez
28 August 2019

Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Provisioning ESXi with MAAS: An overview

Article Cloud and server

MAAS has supported provisioning ESXi starting from MAAS 2.5. However, MAAS 2.6 has expanded its support and provides new features that significantly improves the provisioning experience. What is supported? The support MAAS provides for provisioning an operating system varies depending on the operating system in use....

Andres Rodriguez
12 August 2019

Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019

MAAS 2.6 – ESXi storage, multiple gateways, HTTP boot and more

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is happy to announce the availability of MAAS 2.6. This new release introduces a range of very exciting features and several improvements that enhances MAAS across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones: Growing support for ESXi Datastores MAAS has expanded its support of ESXi by allowing...

Andres Rodriguez
9 July 2019