Canonical MAAS support

[garymm]

Feature Request

Add a Talos support to MAAS, which will make it much easier to install on bare metal machines.

Description

This would mainly consist of adding a template to https://github.com/canonical/packer-maas

[frezbo]

Talos 1.8 will support qcow images from Image Factory, so it should just work

[garymm]

According to this, MAAS requires explicit support for every type of OS. A qcow image doesn't seem to be enough. I could be wrong.
https://discourse.maas.io/t/make-it-possible-easier-to-use-custom-immutable-operating-systems-like-talos/6396/4

[smira]

In that case, I guess the issue should be in the MAAS repository, and worked there?

I don't see what is missing on Talos side so far? Is there anything?

[garymm]

Someone needs to contribute the packer template. I filed an issue with MAAS but they closed it and said "contributions welcome, we're not going to do this", whereas I thought the Talos community / Sidero might be more motivated, hence filing in a place where I think it might attract attention. Obviously you can close this issue if you don't want to track this feature request on this repo.

[smira]

I don't want to close this issue, but I want to clarify that nothing is needed from Talos side, and whoever is familiar with MAAS can send their pull request.

Just for the record, Talos is natively PXE-bootable, including direct PXE boot from the Image Factory, so if someone wants to skip MAAS or any other solution, it works as well without any extra tools.