<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">The MAAS team is happy to announce that the new upstream (development) release has now been released. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Availability</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">MAAS 2.2.0 Beta 3 is currently available in:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">ppa:maas/next</div><div> </div><div>Release notes<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt">Important announcements</h2>Hardware tests - running by default during CommissioningMAAS 2.2 introduces the ability to perform hardware tests. As part of MAAS beta 3, MAAS introduces the ability to run disk tests, which can be run as part of the commissioning processes, or as a separate action from Ready or Deployed. Please be aware that running hardware tests during the commissioning process can prevent machines from becoming ‘Ready’ for deployment, if the hardware tests fail. For more information about the Hardware Testing feature please refer to the following section. Intel Rack Scale Design - Dynamically creating machinesMAAS 2.2 Beta 2 introduced support for Intel’s Rack Scale Design (RSD). RSD is a hardware architecture that allows the dynamic composition of physical systems from a pool of available hardware resources. Starting from Beta 3, MAAS now extends its support for RSD allowing the creation (composition) of machines dynamically. This allows administrators and users to request a machine (allocate) not previously available to MAAS, and dynamically create (compose) one within the RSD system. This machine can then be deployed. Adding such support, it allows juju to deploy workloads against a MAAS that has an RSD Pod, with no previously known (available - Ready) machines.<h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt">New features</h2>Hardware TestingStarting from MAAS, MAAS provides the ability to perform specific hardware tests. The hardware testing feature provides administrators with a predefined set of tests that can be run to ensure correct operation of their hardware before making it available for usage. The hardware testing feature will include Disk, CPU and Memory tests. As of MAAS 2.2 Beta 3, only Disk hardware tests have been made available: <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Disk status - The Disk Status test (smartctl-validate) uses the smartctl tool to verify existing SMART data on all drives has not detected any errors.</li></ul> <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Disk Integrity - MAAS provides the ability to run SMART tests. This includes:</li></ul> <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">smartctl-short & smartctl-long</li></ul>Runs the SMART self tests to validate health on all disks. It provides a long running and a short running test. <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Smartctl-conveyance</li></ul>Runs the conveyance SMART self tests to validate health on all disks. <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Memory - For memory, MAAS provides the following tests:</li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Memtestr</li></ul></ul>Runs memtester over all available RAM. <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">Stress-ng</li></ul>Runs the Stress-NG tests over 12 hours against RAM. NOTE: Please note that these are long running tests and will take hours to complete. <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline">CPU - CPU tests include Stress-NG stress tests over 12 hours.</li></ul> Intel RSD - Dynamic CompositionThe dynamic composition feature allows administrators to request (allocate) machines from an Intel RSD without having to manually compose such machine. This allows modeling tools, such as juju, to request a machine from MAAS when there are no previously known machines, and dynamically create and deploy one for a specific workload. Administrators not using Juju can request a machine via the API, and if no other machine satisfies the specific or default constraints, a machine will be automatically created from an RSD pod if one available. Web UI - MAAS Pods & Intel RSDThe MAAS Web UI introduces a new ‘Pods’ tab. This new Pods tab is where MAAS will list composable hardware systems like the Intel RSD. MAAS 2.2 Beta 2 introduce the ability for MAAS to add and control an Intel RSD via the MAAS API/CLI. MAAS 2.2 Beta 3 introduces a basic Web UI feature to support and manage the Intel RSD Pods (and any other composable hardware). This changes include: <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">List Pods - lists all available pods under the ‘Pods’ tab:</li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">This provides the ability to list all available pods and provide a summary of the usage statistics fo such pod.</li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Add Pod - ability to add new Pods from the ‘Pods’ tab.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Pod Details Page - provides more detailed information about a pod:</li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">This page provides the ability to obtain more detail information of a particular pod. At the moment, it will provide information about the available and used resources.</li></ul></ul> Facebook Wedge 40 & Wedge 100 discoveryMAAS now has the ability to automatically discover and manage the Facebook Wedge 40 and Wedge 100 switches. This allows MAAS to automatically discover the Switch BMC and power manage as any other servers, in order to deploy Ubuntu onto the switches. MAAS will also automatically tag the machine to easily identify it. Additionally, MAAS will automatically identify if the Trident or Tomahawk ASICs are connected to the switch, and will automatically identify them via tags. Web UI - Device Details PageStarting from Beta 3, MAAS 2.2 now provides a Details Page for ‘Devices’, allowing administrators to both, add new interfaces to a device, or modifying the existing interfaces. </div><div> </div>-- <div class="m_-8184664925888201611m_-2398393778250141338gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Andres Rodriguez<div>Engineering Manager, MAAS</div><div>Canonical USA, Inc.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div>