maas

Scope

This cookbook installs and configures the main MAAS application and a Cluster Controller via one of the two recipes.

The default.rb will install the default installation of MAAS. While the clustercontroller will only build you a cluster controller.

After it has converged successfully, you should follow the steps installing maas.

Requirements

Ubuntu 14.04 is the only supported distro and version.

It requires the apt cookbook.

Usage

Change the following attributes around via your preferred methods, and select one of the two recipes and run chef.

Attributes

You will want to changes these attributes around, these are the defaults.

Create the Superuser

default['maas']['create_superuser'] = true

Superuser name

default['maas']['superuser_name'] = "admin"

Superuser password

default['maas']['superuser_password'] = "admin"

Superuser email

default['maas']['superuser_email'] = "fakeemail@fake.com"

The secret for your cluster controller, whatever is on your region controller.

default['maas']['cluster_secret'] = 'f0a6035342ed1651f822d26fe1ed0109'

Your region controller, just ip or hostname

default['maas']['cluster_region_controller'] = '127.0.0.1'

Adding another nic after provisioning

If you and another network interface card after your initial provisioning you will have to do the following:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure maas-cluster-controller
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure maas-region-controller

And make sure they are the address on the network you want to have MaaS provision.

Testing

There are chefspec tests which you can run via chef-dk.

$ chef exec rspec spec

There is also kitchen integration tests that you can run via chef-dk.

$ chef exec kitchen test