No information on how to create a new subnet, vlan, fabric or space from WebUI

[Lei Wang]

MAAS 1.9 rc4

In "Subnets" page, there is no information to tell user how to create a new subnet, vlan, fabric or space, the users could be confused with these "networks" without reading documentations.

It seems that the only way to create these is by execute maas commands. However, the documents of "Networking" are also not very detailed and complete.

[Lei Wang (raywang)]

Besides that, there is also not many useful information about the relations between subnets, vlan, fabric, space.

e.g. For using multiple networks
1. do i need to add additional interface in cluster?
2. how do i create subnets, vlan, fabric or space?
3. do i need to associate which one to which one?
3. do i need to associate a interface to which, and how?
4. do i need to create a vlan of an interface on maas manually in order to manage one vlan?

and so forth..

[Ricardo Bánffy (rbanffy)]

There is some documentation at https://maas.ubuntu.com/docs/networking.html. It could be extended to provide the kind of information you want.

[Lei Wang (raywang)]

Hi Ricardo,

Yes, I just have this ideas after I've read https://maas.ubuntu.com/docs/networking.html.. So in this page, there is just a few example and definition about the new term, however, IMHO, it's not enough. After I read these, I still can not get a clear picture about how these terms/component related with each other.

For example, I played with MAAS 1.9 a long time, and finally i realize i need to create VLAN in order to create a subnet, or I need to add an interface in cluster to get a new subnet. these steps are not mentioned in the document.

Also, there is no steps/instructions to tell user how to create subnet, how to relate the subnet to vlan things like that.

I wish MAAS document can have more detailed about these.

Thanks a lot

[Lei Wang (raywang)]

On the other side, in MAAS WebUI, it should guide user or be clear enough to make user create these components more naturally, rather than user have to read the document first.

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

Marking this as won't fix for 1.9!