About MaaS

MaaS is a Canonical product with a strong focus on their products, Ubuntu and Juju. MaaS API supports a wide range of provisioning operations including RAID and BIOS configuration; however, it tends to be opinionated about configuration choices. This is helpful for new users and challenging for experienced operators.

MaaS’ design is to provide an API abstraction for hardware. For this reason, operators find that they must build their own inventory and configuration plans. This means making multiple calls to the MaaS API for even simple provisioning choices. Language: Ruby

Feature Comparison

Class Feature RackN Cobbler Foreman MaaS Ironic
API Ad Hoc (Pooled) Assignment YES ✔ no no YES ✔ YES ✔
Evented (WSS) YES ✔ no no no no
Integrated DHCP YES ✔ no no no no
Intent API YES ✔ no no no no
Secure API YES ✔ no no no no
Active Community YES ✔ no no no YES ✔
Enterprise Commercial Support YES ✔ no YES ✔ YES ✔ YES ✔
Highly Available YES ✔ no no YES ✔ no
Multi Tenant YES ✔ no no no no
RBAC with Views YES ✔ no no no no
SSO Integration YES ✔ no no no no
Flexible Field Extensible YES ✔ no YES ✔ no no
Metal and Cloud YES ✔ no YES ✔ no no
In-Field Configuration YES ✔ no no no no
Multi-OS YES ✔ Linux Linux Linux YES ✔
Hardware Automatic Classification YES ✔ no no no no
Burnin and Decommission YES ✔ no no no YES ✔
Integrate OOB / IPMI YES ✔ no no no YES ✔
Integrated Inventory YES ✔ no no YES ✔ YES ✔
Multi-Arch / Multi-Protocol YES ✔ no no no no
Switch Integration YES ✔ no no YES ✔ YES ✔
Scale Scale to 1,000s YES ✔ no no no no
Advanced Evented UX YES ✔ no no YES ✔ no
Multi-Site Management YES ✔ no no no no
Multi-Site Federated Views YES ✔ no no no no
Self-Upgrading YES ✔ no no no no
Small footprint YES ✔ no no no no
Workflow Change O/S without Reboot YES ✔ no no no no
Firmware configuration YES ✔ no no no YES ✔
Image deployment YES ✔ no no YES ✔ YES ✔
Integrated Workflow YES ✔ no no no YES ✔
Dynamic Contexts YES ✔ no no no no
Modular IaC YES ✔ no no no no