How To Install senlin-api on Debian 10

Learn how to install senlin-api on Debian 10 with this tutorial. senlin-api is clustering service for OpenStack clouds - API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install senlin-api on Debian 10.

What is senlin-api

senlin-api is:

Senlin is a clustering service for OpenStack clouds. It creates and operates clusters of homogeneous objects exposed by other OpenStack services. The goal is to make the orchestration of collections of similar objects easier.

Senlin provides RESTful APIs to users so that they can associate various policies to a cluster. Sample policies include placement policy, load balancing policy, health policy, scaling policy, update policy and so on.

Senlin is designed to be capable of managing different types of objects. An object’s lifecycle is managed using profile type implementations, which are themselves plugins.

This package provides the REST API daemon.

There are three methods to install senlin-api on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install senlin-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 senlin-api using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install senlin-api

Install senlin-api Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install senlin-api

Install senlin-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install senlin-api

How To Uninstall senlin-api on Debian 10

To uninstall only the senlin-api package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove senlin-api

Uninstall senlin-api And Its Dependencies

To uninstall senlin-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove senlin-api

Remove senlin-api Configurations and Data

To remove senlin-api configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge senlin-api

Remove senlin-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge senlin-api

Dependencies

senlin-api have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install senlin-api package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.