MAAS... as a snap! - Request for testing

[Andres Rodriguez]

Hi Jeff,

The snap is the delivery mechanism for MAAS itself (instead of debs).

This doesn't at all affect the capabilities or features of MAAS, nor the
way you would interact with MAAS directly. As such, you will continue to be
have to point MAAS to the locally copied repositories or PPA's (via the UI
or API), the same way you do today.

Hope this helps.

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Jeffrey Lane <jeffrey.lane at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Is the use of external directories for local apt and image mirrors
> still the same with the snap version?  I store a copy of PPAs and
> archive.ubuntu locally to use MAAS without an external network
> connection (well, that's a requirement for use, actually).
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Andres Rodriguez
> <andres.rodriguez at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > The MAAS team is happy to announce the availability of the MAAS snap,
> making
> > it easier and more efficient to deliver and configure MAAS, without
> changing
> > your underlying OS.
> >
> > Availability
> > The MAAS snap is currently available in 'devmode' as it cannot yet be
> fully
> > confined. MAAS is currently available in the following channels:
> >
> > MAAS 2.2 - available in the stable channel.
> > MAAS trunk - available in the edge channel.
> >
> > More information on confinement and channels can be found in [1] and [2]
> > respectively.
> >
> > What about Debian packages?
> > With the availability of the snaps, MAAS Debian packages will
> (eventually)
> > be deprecated. This means that by Ubuntu 18.04, Debian packages will no
> > longer be the delivery mechanism for MAAS.
> >
> > Read more about the Snap
> > In case you have missed it, Blake's blog explains more about the snap
> > experience in [3].
> >
> > Note: MAAS docs (maas.io/docs), will be available soon!
> >
> > Providing feedback & reporting bugs
> > Since this is the first snap release, we would like your feedback! Please
> > file bugs in [4] and prepend the bug report with "[snap]".
> >
> >
> > [1]: https://snapcraft.io/docs/reference/confinement
> > [2]: https://snapcraft.io/docs/reference/channels
> > [3]: http://blake-rouse.blogspot.com/2017/06/maas-snap-experience.html
> > [4]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+filebug
> >
> > --
> > Andres Rodriguez
> > Engineering Manager, MAAS
> > Canonical USA, Inc.
> >
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Andres Rodriguez
Engineering Manager, MAAS
Canonical USA, Inc.
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