Modern infrastructure teams managing physical servers at scale face a lifecycle gap between provisioning and ongoing operations. Canonical MAAS handles Day 0 bare metal provisioning — discovering, commissioning, testing, and deploying Ubuntu machines through repeatable, cloud-like workflows. Canonical Landscape covers Day 2 operations — centralized patching, monitoring, inventory, configuration management, and reporting across Ubuntu estates. Used together, MAAS provisions the machine and Landscape manages it throughout its lifetime, enabling consistent operations for private clouds, Kubernetes clusters, edge sites, AI infrastructure, and regulated environments.
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The lifecycle gap in bare metal operationsMAAS: cloud-like provisioning for bare metalLandscape: centralized operations for Ubuntu estatesThe operational benefits of using MAAS and Landscape in combinationConclusion: a complete lifecycle for bare metal and UbuntuLearn more in our documentation156 Impressions