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

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 18/09/14 01:24, Julian Edwards wrote:
> I think you're maybe misunderstanding the MAAS philosophy. MAAS owns
> the machine, and if you want to do maintenance on it you need to take
> it out of rotation, at which point MAAS won't care what you want do
> with it, until it's marked available again. So it's not a feature,
> it's a core principle.

Don't take "MAAS owns the network" too far. What that means to me is
that MAAS will LET ME do all the things I care about (record machines,
IP addresses, mac addresses) and LET ME reboot and reinstall, and it
will TELL ME if something is unexpectedly out of sync.

Mark

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