Bare metal Cloud is an IaaS cloud platform that offers dedicated hardware to customers on demand. With its automation features, DevOps Integrations, and advanced networking options, organizations can build a cloud native infrastructure that supports frequent release, agile development, CI/CD Pipelines, and supports frequent releases. Bare Metal Cloud’s integration with MAAS is a vital capability for organizations that want to streamline their infrastructure processes.
What is MAAS?
Allowing for self-service, remote OS installation, MAAS is a popular cloud-native infrastructure management solution. The key features of MAAS include automatic discovery and deployment on major OSs with zero touch, as well as integration with IaC tools. Built to allow API-driven provisioning of servers, MAAS’s robust architecture allows for easy coordination of infrastructure. Its main components are Regions and Racks, which together provide high bandwidth services to multiple racks while ensuring availability. A central database in postgres is also part of the architecture, and it deals with operator requests. MAAS creates powerful DevOps environment through tiering infrastructure, standard protocols like IPMI and PXE and integrations to popular IaaS Tools. Bare Metal Cloud uses its features to deliver an IaaS that is cloud-native and ready for almost instant provisioning.
How MAAS Works on Bare Metal Cloud
Designed to bring the cloud experience to bare metal platforms, MAAS enables Bare Metal Cloud users to get full control over their physical servers while having cloud-like flexibility. The command line interface, web UI, and REST API can be used to query the properties, deploy operating systems, run custom scripts, and initiate rebooting of the servers. Features and Usage of
Bare Metal Cloud
Bare Metal Cloud was designed with automation and integration with the most popular IaC Tools in mind. MAAS OS installation capabilities allow for server provisioning in less than 120 seconds. It also includes features that support DevOps and modern IT demands.
Bare Metal Cloud Features
Single-tenant, non-virtualized environment
Fully automated, API-driven server provisioning
Integrations with Terraform, Ansible, and Pulumi
- SDK available on GitHub
- Pay-per-use and reserved instances billing models
- Dedicated hardware — no “noisy neighbors”
- Global scalability
- Cutting edge hardware and network technologies
- Built with market proven and well-established technology partners
- Suited for developers and business critical production environments alike
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