How To Install nova-cells on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-cells on Debian 9.
What is nova-cells
nova-cells is:
OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.
OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller designed to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. In addition to its “native” OpenStack API, it also supports the Amazon EC2 API, and it supports many different database backends (including SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL), hypervisors (KVM, Xen), and user directory systems (LDAP, SQL).
This is the Nova cells component.
There are three methods to install nova-cells on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nova-cells Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-cells using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-cells
Install nova-cells Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-cells using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-cells
Install nova-cells 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 nova-cells using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-cells
How To Uninstall nova-cells on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nova-cells package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-cells
Uninstall nova-cells And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-cells and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-cells
Remove nova-cells Configurations and Data
To remove nova-cells configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-cells
Remove nova-cells configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-cells configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-cells
Dependencies
nova-cells have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-cells package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
