How To Install placement-api on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install placement-api on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is placement-api
placement-api 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 Placement provides an HTTP service for managing, selecting, and claiming providers of classes of inventory representing available resources in a cloud.
This package provides the placement API frontend for managing resource providers.
Package: placement-api Architecture: all Version: 3.0.0~b3~git2020041014.0f90d197-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: net Source: placement Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Openstack Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 18 Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3, python3-placement (= 3.0.0~b3~git2020041014.0f90d197-0ubuntu1) Filename: pool/main/p/placement/placement-api_3.0.0~b3~git2020041014.0f90d197-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 2852 MD5sum: d46a6ed0a01ccfafdc0ecb8fb07e924b SHA1: f019ce8c3d588c22097bb4ffd67f2269b6ac56d0 SHA256: 587a25fad0f76fe8cb7405ea45dd81f930064663dd7580cb942bb7312596ab71 Homepage: https://github.com/openstack/placement Description-en: OpenStack Placement - API 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 Placement provides an HTTP service for managing, selecting, and claiming providers of classes of inventory representing available resources in a cloud.
This package provides the placement API frontend for managing resource providers.
There are three methods to install placement-api 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 placement-api Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install placement-api using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install placement-api
Install placement-api Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install placement-api using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install placement-api
Install placement-api 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 placement-api using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install placement-api
How To Uninstall placement-api on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the placement-api package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove placement-api
Uninstall placement-api And Its Dependencies
To uninstall placement-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove placement-api
Remove placement-api Configurations and Data
To remove placement-api configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge placement-api
Remove placement-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove placement-api configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge placement-api
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install placement-api package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
