What's new in 2.5
Welcome to MAAS 2.5, a major update to Canonical's Metal as a Service - The smartest way to manage bare metal.
This latest release of MAAS:
- Improves communications between controllers and machines
- Simplifies setting up high-availability environments
- Provides additional KVM Pod features
- Adds new features for adding and commissioning machines
- Introduces resource pools
- Introduces ESXi deployment
- Enhances the MAAS web UI by using the latest Vanilla framework
- Improves API documentation
If you're new to MAAS, take a look at Explore MAAS to get an overview of its installation and capabilities. If you need a more comprehensive review of the changes in this release, including known issues, workarounds and bug fixes, take a look at the detailed release notes in the following MAAS Discourse topics: