Provision hardware

Provision hardware

MCP uses the Ubuntu’s Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS) to provision hardware for an MCP deployment.

MAAS as a bare metal provisioning service requires an IPMI user to manage power state. This should be configured as part of the installation process.

MAAS provides DHCP to the network(s) on which compute nodes reside. Compute nodes then perform PXE boot from the network and you can configure MAAS to provision these PXE booted nodes.