[Maas-devel] RFC: "Serialising" power actions

[Julian Edwards]

On Wednesday 17 Sep 2014 10:18:46 Gavin Panella wrote:
> On 17 September 2014 08:47, Julian Edwards <julian.edwards at canonical.com>
> wrote: ...
> 
> > I believe flagging to be wrong, MAAS should be taking corrective
> > action. If someone wants to turn off a machine, do it through MAAS,
> > not elsewhere.
> 
> When that machine has been provisioned by an IS department for someone
> else's use? "If you wish to reboot, power-off, or power-on the machine
> on which you have root, please file a ticket and we'll deal with it
> under our usual SLA." That's uncool.
> 
> Saying that MAAS is now the power fascist for deployed machines is a
> change of direction. I think it's fine if people want to use MAAS to
> control their node's power, but we should not force them.

This is a fair point.

It remains orthogonal to the other things I raise though.