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

[Jeffrey Lane]

Cool, Thanks.  I guess my concern was more for the future as you
indicate it's devmode for now, so I was worried that once it's no
longer devmode, it would be more difficult to have maas inside the
snap touch directories outside the snap.  I'll see about giving this a
shot this weekend and rebuild my server locally.

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Andres Rodriguez
<andres.rodriguez at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Andres Rodriguez
> Engineering Manager, MAAS
> Canonical USA, Inc.



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