Supporting devices without BMC or IPMI support

[merlijn-sebrechts]

What are the options for provisioning devices that don’t support a BMC/IPMI?

I found this tutorial for rpis: https://maas.io/tutorials/build-your-own-bare-metal-cloud-using-a-raspberry-pi-cluster-with-maas#3-what-youll-need

Are there alternatives that would work with Nvidia Jetson devices? Or with intel NUCs? Does anyone have experience with those boards?

[troyanov]

Hi @merlijn-sebrechts

While I don’t have any experience with the boards you’ve mentioned I am wondering if things like smart plug or power relay will work for you? You can control them through MAAS Webhook power driver.

[merlijn-sebrechts]

For future reference

• Intel NUC devices are supported using the Intel AMT power driver. See Intel AMT Power Driver Tutorial.
• NVIDIA Jetson devices are currently not supported by MAAS because they use custom Ubuntu images and the regular live Ubuntu Server image for Arm64 doesn’t work on Jetson devices. See Are Jetson Tegra images compatible with MAAS?