MAAS Archive

Status: ABANDONED — May 23, 2026

These files are the final state of the MAAS PXE deployment effort for Iron Legion fleet nodes. MAAS was removed from Shield after repeated failures on isolated subnets, IP exhaustion, and general complexity. Replaced by USB autoinstall approach.

Files

curtin_userdata_fleet_v5.yaml — Fleet preseed targeting /dev/nvme0n1, no apt-get (isolated subnet safe), SSH enable only. Final working version before abandonment.

Lessons Captured

MAAS ephemeral commissioning fails on subnets without internet (apt-get hangs)
IP exhaustion on /27 pools after failed deployments (sticky reservations)
G9 Intel I226-V NIC (enp5s0) drops link during Linux driver init
Linux enumerates first NVMe as nvme0n1, not nvme1
Cloud-init stomps hostname unless preserve_hostname: true is set

Replacement

See autoinstall/ in repo root for the USB-based replacement workflow.