MAAS Installation: Bare Metal Provisioning Is Easier Than Ever
Ubuntu, Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Canonical has rewritten its MAAS installation documentation around snaps to simplify bare metal provisioning setup.
Canonical published streamlined installation documentation for MAAS, its bare metal provisioning tool that brings cloud-like automation to physical servers.
The new guides are built around the MAAS and PostgreSQL snaps, giving a far more direct installation workflow than earlier package-based approaches.
The documentation walks users from installation through initial configuration to actually commissioning and deploying physical machines.
Canonical positions the simplification as making MAAS practical to stand up quickly in labs, proof-of-concept environments and production data centres alike.