@billwear It’s been a while now, so I try to recall as much as possible.
We started out with one MAAS (M1), from it we deployed a ‘clean’ host H1, and all was well. The host was working fine, and doing its job.
I can’t remember if it was a hardware failure on the M1 node.
Anyway, the result was that we decommissioned (fresh-install) the M1 node, and deployed a new MAAS (different device, different MAAS version) M2.
However, as H1 was still operating and we had no redundancy on the service it provided, we could not shut it down, and move it to the control of the M2. Hence, H1 was left without a MAAS.
We’re keeping MAAS and expanding the machine base it is managing. But we will probably also have a parallel PXE system, that can deploy stand-alone hosts that will not depend on cf. MAAS or other boot-strapping systems. I…e a system that will deploy MAAS rackd and regiond.
BR/Patrik