# Deploying Machines with MaaS and Packer - Metal as a Service + Hashicorp Packer Tutorial

DevFeed: [Deploying Machines with MaaS and Packer - Metal as a Service + Hashicorp Packer Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/deploying-machines-with-maas-and-packer-metal-as-a-service-hashicorp-packer-tutorial-10601.md>)

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Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2023-01-28T14:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

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## AI overview

A tutorial on installing and configuring Canonical MaaS to provision bare-metal and virtual machines, deploy operating systems, configure networking and network boot, commission machines, and create and upload custom images with Hashicorp Packer.

## Source excerpt

MaaS or Metal as a service from Canonical is a great way to provision bare metal machines as well as virtual machines.MaaS allows you to deploy Windows, Linux, ESXi, and many other operating systems to your systems helping you to build a bare metal cloud.You can even use Packer from Hashicorp to configure custom images too! We'll cover all of this and more in this tutorial on how to install an...