How To Install nova-scheduler on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-scheduler on Kali Linux.

What is nova-scheduler

nova-scheduler 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 scheduler.

There are three methods to install nova-scheduler on Kali Linux. 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-scheduler 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-scheduler using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nova-scheduler

Install nova-scheduler Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nova-scheduler

Install nova-scheduler Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install nova-scheduler

How To Uninstall nova-scheduler on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove nova-scheduler

Uninstall nova-scheduler And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nova-scheduler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-scheduler

Remove nova-scheduler Configurations and Data

To remove nova-scheduler configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nova-scheduler

Remove nova-scheduler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-scheduler

Dependencies

nova-scheduler have the following dependencies:

• nova-common

References

• nova-scheduler website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-scheduler package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.