[Maas-devel] Help trying to use a local mirror for installs using MAAS.

[Ara Pulido]

On 04/09/12 15:46, Scott Moser wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Andres Rodriguez wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> I'm new to MAAS, and at the moment I'm on an isolated network. Is there any
>>> available documentation supporting the use of local mirrors for repos?
>>> Also, I see that MAAS seemingly has hard coded values to use for precise,
>>> are there any workarounds available for installing different releases?
>>>
>>
>> Currently, MAAS only supports the deployment of Precise. However, I believe
>> the support will be added for the next MAAS release.
>>
>> Now, as far as supporting a mirror, MAAS itself currently doesn't support
>> changing the default mirror, but should also be possible in the next MAAS
>> release. However, you can still do this by manually editing a file. This
>> file is:
>>
>> /var/lib/cobbler/snippets/maas_proxy
>>
>> You would have to update the obtions that look like:
>>
>> d-i     mirror/country string manual
>> d-i     mirror/http/hostname string archive.ubuntu.com
>> d-i     mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu
>>
>> To something like:
>>
>> d-i     mirror/country string manual
>> d-i     mirror/http/hostname string 102.168.1.1/path/to/archive
>> d-i     mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu
>>
>> Furthermore, MAAS has a proxy for deb mpackages. If you wish to disable it,
>> you could do so by removing the following line from the same file above:
>>
>> d-i     mirror/http/proxy string http://@@server@@:8000/
>>
>> Hope this information helps. Also note that this will be changed in the
>> next MAAS release as support will be added.
> 
> There is a question on this topic at [1].
> Note, cloud-init will very annoyingly overwrite these settings.
> 
> The solutions there aren't fully baked.  The answer there by 'Michael' is
> incorrect, as preseed values do not append.  And apparently my answer to
> him didn't work, although i would have expected it to.
> 
> The bug opened for this as
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1006966 .
> 
> imo fully offline mirrors being fully functional is requirement for
> quantal maas.

+1

In the certification team we are starting to investigate MAAS as our
provisioning method. Our set up is no different from many companies
and/or datacenter, where everything is under a firewall, with very
little access to the outside world.

Thanks,
Ara

> 
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> [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/144393/how-to-let-maas-cloud-init-client-select-internal-mirror
> 
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