Sorry, I did not get notified of your response earlier.
You are correct, I have server farms that we push OS to. MAAS seems to do a great job, but I want the deployed machines not to depend on MAAS for its operation. These are mostly systems we use as KVM servers (But desktop are definitely in my radar, same workflow) . I was thinking:
- Log into deployed machine.
- Configure static IP
- Configure ssh/password for standalone operation
- Disable cloud-init.
- Remove it from MAAS DB
I was trying to find out what does “Delete Machine” do but the docs are silent on it.