Besides managing bare metal machines, MAAS (Metal as a Service) can also manage KVM guests as long as those machines are boot from network PXE. This feature allow us to efficiently manage local computing resources, while at the same time, leverage JuJu for automatically middle ware deployment. In this post, I will detail steps to manage KVM guest machines using MaaS. System diagram MaaS Managed Machine: MaaS Virtual Machine creates other Virtual machines through KVM Pod.