Adding LXD VM hosts with the MAAS CLI

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Hello,

I am trying to create a MAAS PoC and I am strugging to add my MAAS host via the cli. If I run:

ubuntu@maas-poc:~$ maas admin vm-hosts create type=lxd power_address=$(ip -o -4 a | grep en | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d "/" -f1):8443 power_pass=ubuntu name=local-lxd project="sandboxing" pool=default

I get the error:

Failed talking to pod: Pod None: Certificate is not trusted and no password was given.

Despite using my PoC machines super secure password you see above. If I enter the same information into the MAAS UI, it will work, and even subsequent CLI/API calls will work AFTER adding the host and deleting it from the MAAS UI.

Thanks for the help,

Peter

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obviously, this has to do with the certificate process. when you use the UI, you probably do the certificate step, am i right?

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hey @billwear, so when I do it in the UI there is no certificate exchange, at least not exposed to me as the user.

It will just accept my password, then ask me what project I wish to use,

Many thanks,

Peter

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hmm. that sounds different from what i expected.

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potentially I can try doing the exchange with the CLI first and see if that resolves my issue

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sure, you can give that a try, but i’m not giving up on this. this should be a straightforward procedure (it might be, in fact), but it certainly isn’t properly documented.

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thnx for that @billwear I took a second look at the docs, even they seem to suggest this isn’t currently possible. I couldn’t find anything about inserting the certificate there either. Maybe it is UI only at the moment?

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that might be the case, but that seems wonky to me. i’m going to ask someone more knowledgeable today and see what i can figure out.

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Just closing this one up. Using power_pass will cause a failure. The correct argument to use is password.

Thanks for the help. @billwear