How To Install masakari-engine on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install masakari-engine on Ubuntu 20.04. masakari-engine is Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) for OpenStack - Engine Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) for OpenStack - Engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install masakari-engine on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is masakari-engine

masakari-engine is:

Masakari provides Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) service for OpenStack clouds by automatically recovering the KVM-based Virtual Machine(VM)s from failure events such as VM process down, provisioning process down, and nova-compute host failure. It also provides API service for manage and control the automated rescue mechanism.

This package contains the Masakari Engine.

Package: masakari-engine Architecture: all Version: 9.0.0~b3~git2020041013.94ec959-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: python Source: masakari Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Corey Bryant [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 27 Depends: python3-masakari (= 9.0.0~b3~git2020041013.94ec959-0ubuntu1) Filename: pool/main/m/masakari/masakari-engine_9.0.0~b3~git2020041013.94ec959-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 4952 MD5sum: 2d48e7570088ff418c2eb12495a7e027 SHA1: 87eda3872d593a048830174b914108dccee086f6 SHA256: 2bd4cf867dc4d9106a5037226c98450a78567738dd333caeb0cb7edf7df112c9 Homepage: https://github.com/openstack/masakari Description-en: Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) for OpenStack - Engine Masakari provides Virtual Machine High Availability (VMHA) service for OpenStack clouds by automatically recovering the KVM-based Virtual Machine(VM)s from failure events such as VM process down, provisioning process down, and nova-compute host failure. It also provides API service for manage and control the automated rescue mechanism.

This package contains the Masakari Engine.

There are three methods to install masakari-engine 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 masakari-engine Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install masakari-engine

Install masakari-engine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install masakari-engine

Install masakari-engine 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 masakari-engine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install masakari-engine

How To Uninstall masakari-engine on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the masakari-engine package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove masakari-engine

Uninstall masakari-engine And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove masakari-engine

Remove masakari-engine Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge masakari-engine

Remove masakari-engine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge masakari-engine

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Summary

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