How To Install nova-compute-ironic on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-ironic on Debian 9. nova-compute-ironic is OpenStack Compute - compute node (Ironic)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-ironic on Debian 9.

What is nova-compute-ironic

nova-compute-ironic 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 a dependency package for compute nodes using Ironic.

There are three methods to install nova-compute-ironic 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-compute-ironic 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-compute-ironic using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nova-compute-ironic

Install nova-compute-ironic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nova-compute-ironic

Install nova-compute-ironic 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-compute-ironic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nova-compute-ironic

How To Uninstall nova-compute-ironic on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove nova-compute-ironic

Uninstall nova-compute-ironic And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nova-compute-ironic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-compute-ironic

Remove nova-compute-ironic Configurations and Data

To remove nova-compute-ironic configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nova-compute-ironic

Remove nova-compute-ironic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-compute-ironic

Dependencies

nova-compute-ironic have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-ironic package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.