How To Install ironic-inspector on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-inspector
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ironic-inspector
ironic-inspector is:
This is an auxiliary service for discovering hardware properties for a node managed by OpenStack Ironic. Hardware introspection or hardware properties discovery is a process of getting hardware parameters required for scheduling from a bare metal node, given it’s power management credentials (e.g. IPMI address, user name and password).
A special discovery ramdisk is required to collect the information on a node. The default one can be built using diskimage-builder and ironic-inspector-ramdisk element.
This package contains the daemon.
There are three methods to install ironic-inspector
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-inspector 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-inspector
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ironic-inspector
Install ironic-inspector Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ironic-inspector
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ironic-inspector
Install ironic-inspector 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-inspector
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ironic-inspector
How To Uninstall ironic-inspector on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ironic-inspector
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ironic-inspector
Uninstall ironic-inspector And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ironic-inspector
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ironic-inspector
Remove ironic-inspector Configurations and Data
To remove ironic-inspector
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ironic-inspector
Remove ironic-inspector configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ironic-inspector
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ironic-inspector
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-inspector
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.