[HH] Metal as a Service

[Tom Metro]

I just ran across Canonical's "Metal as a Service" (MAAS) project:
https://maas.ubuntu.com/

which apparently is a tool for managing a cluster of servers, though at
a lower level than what you typically see. It claims to offer similar
management functionality as you'd find in a cloud management tool, such
as the ability to spin up a node and load an OS image onto it, except in
thus case you're going to the bare metal instead of talking to a base OS
with a hypervisor.

It sounds like part of how it accomplishes this is by booting nodes over
the network but how does it bring up hardware that's been powered off?
Wake-on-LAN?

In any case, I was thinking it might be a useful tool for managing a
cluster of Raspberry Pi or other ARM boards.

Perhaps Federico has played around with this and can comment.

It supposedly can be used in conjunction with Canonical's Juju, which
I've seen described as "apt (apt-get) for the cloud." A tool to automate
deploying apps to multiple nodes in a cloud. (I believe Federico will be
giving a talk for BLU on Juju later this year.)

 -Tom