Bare metal and data center automation made easy
Turn hardware into programmable, cloud-like bare metal infrastructure
Why automate your data center with MAAS
MAAS is an open source platform that provides a centralized environment for managing and provisioning physical servers as if they were cloud resources.
By turning complex tasks into automated workflows, MAAS helps teams move faster and focus on innovation instead of infrastructure.
Lower costs with automation
Reduce costs and human error by automating the entire lifecycle of your machines, from initial setup to final decommissioning.
Scale your hardware resources effectively
Treat your physical servers as a flexible, on-demand resource pool that can be provisioned and scaled instantly.
Who is using MAAS?
Deploy any OS image on any hardware
MAAS delivers the fastest OS installation times in the industry thanks to its optimized image-based installer.
- Works on all certified servers
- Discovers servers in racks, chassis and data center networks
- Supports major system BMCs and chassis controllers
Key features
Automated hardware lifecycle management
Automatically discovers, inventories, commissions, and deploys physical servers. Through the server's baseboard management controller (BMC), MAAS can manage remote power and other out-of-band controls.
Infrastructure-as-code automation
Use a cloud-like API to programmatically manage the entire hardware lifecycle as code. MAAS integrates with DevOps tools like Terraform, Juju and Ansible to automate, orchestrate, and model entire physical infrastructure deployments from a single workflow.
Integrated hardware diagnostics
Execute extensive pre-commissioning tests to establish a performance baseline and verify the integrity of critical components, ensuring only compliant and healthy machines are provisioned.
Inventory
Discover every PCI and USB device in every server. Inventory disk models and serial numbers. Provision machines based on specific configuration details to optimize your applications.
IPAM, DHCP, DNS
Configure server network interfaces with bridges, VLANs, bonds and addresses. Integrated, best of breed, highly available, open source DHCP and DNS.
Authentication and identity
Role-based access control (RBAC) and integration with LDAP, Active Directory or SAML for central identity management and single-sign-on (SSO) across multiple MAAS regions.
MAAS use cases
Private cloud
Effortlessly deploy and manage your own private cloud infrastructure. Whether you choose OpenStack for a robust and scalable solution, or MicroCloud for a lightweight and agile alternative, MAAS serves as the foundational infrastructure provider, streamlining the entire process from bare metal to a fully operational cloud environment.
Bare metal Kubernetes
Deploying Kubernetes directly on bare-metal servers (managed by MAAS) offers a significant advantage by avoiding the overhead of an underlying virtualization layer. This approach leads to superior performance and predictability for your applications. This architecture is particularly beneficial for high-performance computing (HPC).
Server automation and lifecycle management
Streamline the entire lifecycle management of your server fleet, from initial provisioning to eventual re-purposing. This automation ensures consistency, reduces human error, and significantly speeds up operations. Combine it with Landscape to automate security patching, application auditing, access management and compliance tasks across Ubuntu machines.
What users say about MAAS
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Discover how MAAS empowers our users to accelerate their businesses.
T-Mobile implements bare-metal self-service
Find out how T-Mobile built a self-service portal using MAAS to allow people to order servers like burgers.
One of the best talks to understand one of the greatest benefits of MAAS – faster time-to-delivery.
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From Windows to Ubuntu in 7 days
Roblox is a gaming platform for 100 million kids all over the world, and serving them requires deploying edge compute globally for low latency gaming experiences. This means imaging, managing and rebuilding thousands of servers.
Find out how they migrated servers from Windows to Linux for approximately 200K containerized workloads in a seven-day timeframe, using MAAS for the path to full orchestration.
Latest from our blog
MAAS tutorials
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Build your own bare metal cloud using a Raspberry Pi cluster with MAAS
Transform a handful of Raspberry Pis into a powerful, cost-effective bare metal private cloud for your home lab.
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Provision ESXi with MAAS
Automate the provisioning of VMware ESXi hosts with MAAS, transforming a complex, manual process into a fast, repeatable, and error-free operation.
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Build a MAAS and LXD environment in 30 minutes with Multipass on Ubuntu
Take your first steps with MAAS. This guide shows you the easiest way to build a fully virtualized sandbox on your laptop in just 30 minutes using Multipass—no extra hardware required.
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Bare metal Kubernetes hands on tutorial with MAAS and Juju
Go from bare metal to a fully operational Kubernetes cluster. This hands-on video tutorial guides you through the entire process using MAAS and Juju.
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MAAS product tour
Our tutorials offer clear, step-by-step instructions and practical demonstrations to help you master MAAS efficiently and effectively, from initial setup to advanced deployment.
Enterprise support for MAAS
MAAS is freely available, open source software from Canonical. Support and commercial capabilities are available.
Ubuntu Pro with Infra-only coverage
Get security, compliance, and support for full Ubuntu deployments managed by MAAS. This coverage is charged on a per-machine basis.
MAAS standalone support
For deployments that don't include Ubuntu machines, MAAS support can be purchased as a standalone service.
To be eligible for MAAS standalone support, Ubuntu Pro is always required for machines hosting the MAAS controllers.
The pricing for standalone support for the non-Ubuntu machines managed by MAAS is as follows:
Self-support
Free
for all machines
What's included
- High availability (HA) support
- Role based access control (RBAC)
- Knowledge Base
- Response time - SLA Sev 1
- Phone and ticket support
Essential
$30
per year, per managed machine
What's included
- High availability (HA) support
- Role based access control (RBAC)
- Knowledge Base
- Response time - SLA Sev 1
- Phone and ticket support
Standard
$50
per year, per managed machine
What's included
- High availability (HA) support
- Role based access control (RBAC)
- Knowledge Base
- Response time - SLA Sev 1: 4 hours
- Phone and ticket support: Office hours
Advanced
$100
per year, per managed machine
What's included
- High availability (HA) support
- Role based access control (RBAC)
- Knowledge Base
- Response time - SLA Sev 1: 1 hour
- Phone and ticket support:
24 hours a day, everyday