How To Install neutron-taas-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neutron-taas-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is neutron-taas-common
neutron-taas-common is:
Neutron provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual networks. These networks connect “interfaces” from other OpenStack services (such as vNICs from Nova VMs). The Neutron API supports extensions to provide advanced network capabilities, including QoS, ACLs, and network monitoring.
Tap-as-a-Service (TaaS) is an extension to the OpenStack network service (Neutron). It provides remote port mirroring capability for tenant virtual networks.
Port mirroring involves sending a copy of packets entering and/or leaving one port to another port, which is usually different from the original destinations of the packets being mirrored.
This service has been primarily designed to help tenants (or the cloud administrator) debug complex virtual networks and gain visibility into their VMs, by monitoring the network traffic associated with them. TaaS honors tenant boundaries and its mirror sessions are capable of spanning across multiple compute and network nodes. It serves as an essential infrastructure component that can be utilized for supplying data to a variety of network analytics and security applications (e.g. IDS).
This package provides the common files for the Tap-as-a-Service (TaaS) extension.
There are three methods to install neutron-taas-common 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 neutron-taas-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install neutron-taas-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install neutron-taas-common
Install neutron-taas-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install neutron-taas-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install neutron-taas-common
Install neutron-taas-common 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 neutron-taas-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install neutron-taas-common
How To Uninstall neutron-taas-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the neutron-taas-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove neutron-taas-common
Uninstall neutron-taas-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall neutron-taas-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove neutron-taas-common
Remove neutron-taas-common Configurations and Data
To remove neutron-taas-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge neutron-taas-common
Remove neutron-taas-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove neutron-taas-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neutron-taas-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neutron-taas-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
