Charmed MAAS Site Manager K8s Tutorial | 1. Set up environment

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Set up environment

In this section, we’ll set up a development environment for deploying Charmed MAAS Site Manager K8s. We use a Multipass VM with the charm-dev cloud-init config to install and configure necessary components, like MicroK8s and Juju.

Launch the charm-dev Multipass VM

If you haven’t already installed Multipass, do so via snap:

sudo snap install multipass

Then, launch a new VM with the charm-dev cloud-init config:

multipass launch --cpus 4 --memory 8G --disk 50G --name charm-dev-vm charm-dev

Note: You can find documentation about the multipass launch command used above here.

Once the VM has finished launching, you can access it with:

multipass shell charm-dev-vm

Set up Juju

First, set up Juju to use a local MicroK8s controller. In a shell inside the charm-dev-vm, run the following:

juju bootstrap microk8s microk8s

We will need two separate models for our deployment; one for COS Lite, and one for MAAS Site Manager. Create these models as shown below:

juju add-model msm
juju add-model cos-lite

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