[18:13] <roaksoax> rvba: don't take you are still around?
[20:18] <Mtl_> Hey there. I just installed MaaS and saw that It proceeds to automatic server installation with PXE+DHCP+IPMI/WakeOnLan. But I was wondering ... How can it be possible in a real datacenter like OVH ?
[20:33] <lifeless> Mtl_: you mean ovh.co.uk ?
[20:33] <Mtl_> yes sir.
[20:34] <lifeless> if they give you acccess to IPMI and your own layer 2 network for deployment it should work fine
[20:34] <lifeless> if they don't, then you'd need them to offer you a MaaS endpoint
[20:36] <lifeless> (or some other bare metal cloud API)
[20:36] <Mtl_> They offer a kind of "own network" called vRack http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/virtual_rack.xml
[20:36] <Mtl_> whitch connect dedicted servers with a virtual switch
[20:39] <Mtl_> By the way, I bet that the Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure is nothing without MaaS
[20:39] <lifeless> what do you mean ?
[20:42] <Mtl_> That the deployment of a Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure is not possible / useful without MaaS
[20:48] <lifeless> oh; I wouldn't agree with that statement
[20:52] <lifeless> though I guess it depends on the exact definition of UCI
[20:52] <Mtl_> Thanks for all
[20:53] <lifeless> but you can certainly deploy an OpenStack cloud using Ubuntu packages w/out MaaS
[20:53] <lifeless> probably still using Juju - e.g. Juju on top of Nova baremetal
[20:53] <lifeless> in fact https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuCloudInfrastructure describes three ways to install
[20:53] <lifeless> only one of which uses MaaS
[20:58] <Mtl_> Aah right.
[20:58] <Mtl_> And MaaS is really dedicted for HyperScale
[20:58] <Mtl_> Like if you have your own datacenter and racking a lot of servers
[20:59] <Mtl_> to avoid the installation process on workers
[21:52] <lifeless> Mtl_: yes, it is automation
[21:52] <lifeless> Mtl_: if you don't have enough hardware to pay off the (time, learning, etc) overhead of installing MaaS, then you don't need it.
[21:52] <lifeless> Mtl_: but you can still get UCI ;)
[21:55] <Mtl_> Thanks for help !