How To Install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci on Debian 12

Learn how to install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci on Debian 12 with this tutorial. openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci is automatic PXE and puppet-master installer for OpenStack - PoC

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci on Debian 12.

What is openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci

openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci is:

OCI (OpenStack Cluster Installer) is a software to provision an OpenStack clusters automatically. This package installs a provisioning machine, which uses the below components:

  • a DHCP server (isc-dhcp-server)
  • a PXE boot server (tftp-hpa)
  • a web server (apache2)
  • a puppet-master

Once computers in the cluster boot for the first time, a Debian live system is served by OCI over PXE, to act as a discovery image. This live system then reports the hardware features back to OCI. Computers can then be installed with Debian from that live system, configured with a puppet-agent that will connect to the puppet-master of OCI. After Debian is installed, the server reboots, and OpenStack services are provisionned, depending on the server role in the cluster.

OCI is fully packaged in Debian, including all of the Puppet modules. After installing the OCI package and its dependencies, no other artificat needs to be installed on your provisioning server, meaning that if a local debian mirror is available, the OpenStack cluster installation can be done completely offline.

This package installs the scripting needed for running OCI on a CI using OpenStack itself (ie: OpenStack installed on VMs in a cloud).

There are three methods to install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci

Install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci

Install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci 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 openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci

How To Uninstall openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci on Debian 12

To uninstall only the openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci

Uninstall openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci And Its Dependencies

To uninstall openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci

Remove openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci Configurations and Data

To remove openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci

Remove openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci

Dependencies

openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openstack-cluster-installer-openstack-ci package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.