How To Install heat-api on Debian 10

Learn how to install heat-api on Debian 10 with this tutorial. heat-api is OpenStack orchestration service - API server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-api on Debian 10.

What is heat-api

heat-api is:

Heat is a service to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications using templates, through both an OpenStack-native ReST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.

This package contains the ReST API.

There are three methods to install heat-api on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install heat-api Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install heat-api using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install heat-api

Install heat-api Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install heat-api using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install heat-api

Install heat-api Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install heat-api using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install heat-api

How To Uninstall heat-api on Debian 10

To uninstall only the heat-api package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove heat-api

Uninstall heat-api And Its Dependencies

To uninstall heat-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove heat-api

Remove heat-api Configurations and Data

To remove heat-api configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge heat-api

Remove heat-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove heat-api configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge heat-api

Dependencies

heat-api have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-api package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.