How To Install ironic-api on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-api on Ubuntu 20.04. ironic-api is Openstack bare metal provisioning service - API Openstack bare metal provisioning service - API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-api on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is ironic-api

ironic-api is:

Ironic is an Incubated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.

This package contains the API.

Package: ironic-api Architecture: all Version: 1:14.0.1~git2020041013.af9e6ba90-0ubuntu2 Priority: extra Section: universe/net Source: ironic Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Chuck Short [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 35 Depends: python3-ironic (= 1:14.0.1~git2020041013.af9e6ba90-0ubuntu2) Filename: pool/universe/i/ironic/ironic-api_14.0.1~git2020041013.af9e6ba90-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 6464 MD5sum: cba063e226d85400bb6c878360d7b0d7 SHA1: e813c4899c7af8ef11d573fa0966aefb3b964cdc SHA256: 041aba69898e74173c6c1738846493a0681d8889dabe94e434eba50471e071a8 Description-en: Openstack bare metal provisioning service - API Ironic is an Incubated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.

This package contains the API.

There are three methods to install ironic-api on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ironic-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 ironic-api using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ironic-api

Install ironic-api Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ironic-api

Install ironic-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install ironic-api

How To Uninstall ironic-api on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove ironic-api

Uninstall ironic-api And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ironic-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ironic-api

Remove ironic-api Configurations and Data

To remove ironic-api configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ironic-api

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-api package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.