Build your own private cloud with Ubuntu - II

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Build your own private cloud with Ubuntu - I

  Create node for your MAAS server. You must have atleast 2 nodes before going ahead with juju setup. Go to the webpage for maas server and Click on Add nodes.

We left all the other information fields there blank except for the MAC-ADDRESS. You can get the mac address of your computer by ipconfig on windows and ifconfig on Ubuntu - Ubuntu users can do: 

ifconfig | grep hwadrs

Then we went to
http://maas.ubuntu.com/docs/juju-quick-start.html
Thereafter we created ~/.juju/environments.yaml
vim ~/.juju/environments.yaml
Added the following details to this file

juju: environments
environments:
  maas:
    type: maas
    maas-server: 'http://localhost:5240'
    maas-oauth: '${maas-api-key}'
    admin-secret: 'nothing'

Got an error default-series: missing

Added this line to the above file
    default-series: 'precise'
Error Gone

juju status
New error
Juju INFO Connecting to environment... Unhandled error in Deferred: Unhandled Error

Investigated, result:
Juju packages needs to be installed from ppa:juju/pkg

Went to
https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/
removed existing juju
sudo apt-get update
            sudo apt-get install juju-core (error no package)


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:juju/devel
            sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install juju-core

Configuring Juju
juju generate-config -w   
previously written environment.yml was moved and the changes were added to the new yml file.

error: environment has no access-key or secret-key

changed default: amazon to default: maas
juju bootsrap
error:no tools
sudo juju -v sync-tools

roshan@ubuntu-cloud:~$ sudo juju bootstrap
error: cannot start bootstrap instance: cannot run instances: gomaasapi: got error back from server: 409 CONFLICT

CONFLICT from maas means that it doesn't have any nodes available for juju to acquire (juju bootstrap needs to boot a node).
It's not the best error unfortunately, juju needs fixing to show all the text. You need the server edition of 12.04

Nodes were disconnected for sometime...
Next article should have the addition of nodes...