Manual DHCP allocation

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Greetings,

I am considering MAAS for my homelab. My main interest is learning the configuration and deployment of containers on the many Raspberry Pi clusters I have. In the past I have used manual DHCP allocations form all my server IP addresses so that I have a single place for IP address management vs having individual configuration file scattered across the servers. This way it makes it simpler to have MAC address -> IP addresses remain fixed and simplifies management if DNS also. My concern with MAAS is will this approach conflict with MAAS’s use of DHCP?

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You can do manual DHCP allocations, but you have to make sure that your DHCP offers set the next-server address to the TFTP boot server – that’s how MAAS machines (e.g., your RPi clusters) will get the address of boot servers to request an NBP.

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