A better MAAS GUI experience with thousands of nodes
Whilst many MAAS deployments are modest, there is strong growth in large-scale deployments.
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Thank you for trusting MAAS with your large deployments. We want to hear from users with 100s and 1000s of nodes, about how we can better meet you needs.
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This industry-shift has been famously characterised as ‘raising cattle’ rather than ‘keeping pets’; this matches our philosophy of bringing a cloud-like experience to metal.
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The API and CLI are obviously a key way to work at scale, to script your solutions. In addition, the MAAS design team is looking for ideas and feedback on the ‘Dashboard’ concept.
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Also, do note the performance and stats metrics added in 2.6
Open questions:
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What new challenges do you face, moving from 100s to 1000s of machines?
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What kind of high-level summaries do you wish for?
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What information is easy to miss, or difficult to manage, with a large MAAS?
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What’s not great with the current GUI for a large MAAS? If we could improve one thing, what would that be?
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Charts and graphs: what information-visualisations do you find useful? You might have examples from other products, or other domains that you would like to see in MAAS.
All feedback welcome.