[Maas-devel] Registration of workers (aka Cluster Controllers)

[Raphaël Badin]

> […]
> 1. Worker uses Avahi to discover the MAAS and enlists itself in much the same
> way as a node does.  We'd then wait for the admin to fill in the blank details
> and accept the worker.
>
> 2. Have an "Add Worker" form on the MAAS admin pages where the admin just does
> everything.
>
> Once a worker is fully defined we already have a way for it to receive an API
> key from MAAS, it just needs to be pushed down at the right point.

Like you said, having only one place to set things up has a lot of 
appeal.  But unless I'm missing something we still have two levels of 
authentication here:
a) there is the API authentication which can be easily pushed down to 
the worker once it's registered (i.e. once the corresponding nodegroup 
with all the required data has been created)
b) there is also the broker information (host, port, username, password, 
vhost) that the worker needs to connect to rabbitmq.

a) can be entered in the web UI but b) needs to be set up on the worker 
side when the worker package is installed.


R.