ability to create bridges on MAAS nodes for use without Juju

Bug #1512187 reported by Darryl Weaver
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
MAAS
Fix Released
Wishlist
Blake Rouse

Bug Description

It would be useful to be able to create bridge interfaces on a node for deployment without the use of Juju.

Use case:
Standalone MAAS without Juju orchestration or with devices not managed by Juju

When using MAAS in a data centre there is likely to be the requirement to deploy applications that are not supported by Juju. To allow users to use MAAS for generic server deployment it would be useful to be able to create network bridges from the MAAS UI for a node.

This would allow a standalone server to be deployed using bridging for various applications including any generic linux application or LXC containers or KVM hosts.

Revision history for this message
Andres Rodriguez (andreserl) wrote :

Hi Darryl,

Thanks for your bug report. Bridge creation is not in scope for MAAS 1.9, however it may be part of 2.0.

That being said, Juju handles the creation of bridges for both LXC containers or KVM hosts.

Hoope this helps.

Changed in maas:
milestone: none → next
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Lee Trager (ltrager)
Changed in maas:
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Darryl Weaver (dweaver) wrote :

Additional Use Cases would include:

Building an Ubuntu based simple KVM host cluster:

To build a simple KVM host cluster that works across multiple machines on the local network you would need to be able to deploy more than 1 node and connect the KVM guests to a bridged network interface that bridges to the physical NIC of each node.

Once bridging is available a simple KVM cluster could be built in just a few steps directly from MAAS API, followed by using Landscape to deploy the additional KVM packages.

tags: added: canonical-bootstack
Changed in maas:
milestone: next → 2.1.0
Changed in maas:
milestone: 2.0.1 → 2.1.0
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in maas:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in maas:
assignee: nobody → Blake Rouse (blake-rouse)
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