Support for debian images

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I have been able to make debian images work in MAAS[0] but changes in MAAS 3.1 now require all images to have a supported base image. Since debian is not a supported image, any debian images I’ve uploaded will stop working. Previously uploaded images fail with the cryptic:

not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)

And uploading new images fail with:

{"base_image": ["custom images require a valid base image name"]}

or, if you supply base_image=debian/buster you get:

{"base_image": ["custom images require a valid non-custom OS type base image"]}

We haven’t required official support debian images in the past but with the update to 3.1, it becomes critical.

[0] I’ve successfully built debian images using info gleaned from this discourse such as this post as well as other sources such as askubuntu.

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no news on this ? :neutral_face:

It need to be supported ( or at least allow user to use custom OS, not doing some kind of lock-in )

I would love to deploy proxmox using maas, but sadly proxmox doesn’t work on ubuntu ( only debian is supported with pve )

This is the only thing holding us back in our company for using maas

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