[Blueprint servercloud-q-arm-deployment] ARM Server Deployment

[Antonio Rosales]

Blueprint changed by Antonio Rosales:

Whiteboard changed:
  User Stories
  
  Alice's new ARM server cluster has arrived and she has plugged it in.
  She would like to take the charms that she has been testing in a third
  party Openstack cluster and deploy them to her new ARM server cluster.
  
  ARM servers are so new that Bob, a seasoned datacentre technician, does
  not know how they work. But Bob does know how to use MAAS, because he
  has been testing it using his Intel servers. This was easy for him
  because he knows how PXE works. Bob would like MAAS on his ARM servers
  so that he doesn't need to care about how the system management works
  underneath.
  
  Assumptions
  
  ARM systems without system management via IPMI and U-Boot pxelinux
  emulation are out of scope for this cycle.
  
  ARM systems that we do not have hardware to test with at the start of
  this cycle may not be able to be considered.
  
  Test Plans
  
  Charm testing on ARM hardware. This will exercise MAAS as well.
  
  Release Note
  
  MAAS now works on ARM! This also enables juju on ARM bare metal.
  
  Notes:
  
-  What will the supported installation methods be for Q? Eg. netinst (manual), MAAS, dd an oem image, cloud image, ...?
+  What will the supported installation methods be for Q? Eg. netinst (manual), MAAS, dd an oem image, cloud image, ...?
  Use cases:
  First time by-hand install (how important?)
  juju-based bare-metal deployment
  OpenStack (important, but out of scope)
  First time by-hand install:
  netinst sufficient?
  Mechanisms for the installer to install/configure U-Boot.
- 
- -- Please can we document some goals, use cases and assumptions for the
- quantal release cycle and fill out the work items to support this
- activity [james-page]
- 
- -- Please also include work items needed to enable MAAS following the
- template @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BlueprintSpec [a.rosales]

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ARM Server Deployment
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-arm-deployment