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title: Charmhub | Deploy MAAS Site Manager Operator for Kubernetes using Charmhub
  - The Open Operator Collection
description: Deploy the latest version of MAAS Site Manager Operator for Kubernetes
  as a Kubernetes Operator on any cloud.
url: https://charmhub.io/maas-site-manager-k8s/docs/t-set-up
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# MAAS Site Manager Operator for Kubernetes

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* [MAAS Maintainers](https://charmhub.io/publisher/maas-maintainers "View all packages from MAAS Maintainers")

Platform:

1.1/beta 53

```
juju deploy maas-site-manager-k8s --channel 1.1/beta
```

[Learn to deploy on juju >](https://juju.is/docs/juju/manage-applications)

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#### Relevant links

* [Homepage](https://launchpad.net/maas-site-manager)

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#### Contacts

* [Submit a bug](https://github.com/canonical/maas-site-manager-k8s-operator/issues)

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# Set up environment

In this section, we’ll set up a development environment for deploying Charmed MAAS Site Manager K8s. We use a Multipass VM with the [charm-dev](https://github.com/canonical/multipass-blueprints/blob/main/v1/charm-dev.yaml) cloud-init config to install and configure necessary components, like MicroK8s and Juju.

## [Launch the charm-dev Multipass VM](https://charmhub.io/maas-site-manager-k8s/docs/t-set-up#p-34222-launch-the-charm-dev-multipass-vm)

If you haven’t already installed Multipass, do so via snap:

```
sudo snap install multipass
```

Then, launch a new VM with the `charm-dev` cloud-init config:

```
multipass launch --cpus 4 --memory 8G --disk 50G --name charm-dev-vm charm-dev
```

**Note:** You can find documentation about the `multipass launch` command used above [here](https://multipass.run/docs/launch-command).

Once the VM has finished launching, you can access it with:

```
multipass shell charm-dev-vm
```

## [Set up Juju](https://charmhub.io/maas-site-manager-k8s/docs/t-set-up#p-34222-set-up-juju)

First, set up Juju to use a local MicroK8s controller. If you do not already have a `microk8s` cloud (you can check with `juju clouds`), run the following in a shell inside the `charm-dev-vm`:

```
juju bootstrap microk8s microk8s
```

We will need two separate models for our deployment; one for COS Lite, and one for MAAS Site Manager. Create these models as shown below:

```
juju add-model msm
juju add-model cos-lite
```

**Next Step:** [Deploy PostgreSQL](https://charmhub.io/maas-site-manager-k8s/docs/t-deploy-postgresql)

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