How To Install senlin-api on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install senlin-api on Ubuntu 20.04.
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.
Package: senlin-api Architecture: all Version: 9.0.0~b3~git2020041014.4627fbfb-0ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/net Source: senlin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian OpenStack [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 138 Depends: adduser, senlin-common (= 9.0.0~b3~git2020041014.4627fbfb-0ubuntu1), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Filename: pool/universe/s/senlin/senlin-api_9.0.0~b3~git2020041014.4627fbfb-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 19668 MD5sum: 362dc50407633c3f4b7f02d8cdb05008 SHA1: 53e40800ba885f126f7ca7e4886c4ff6d691c09c SHA256: ab14c1f2e7f9fe135997ba23494327d479cec5ad18154d3392c2ff2153a86ba7 Homepage: https://github.com/stackforge/senlin Description-en: clustering service for OpenStack clouds - API 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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install senlin-api package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
