How To Install senlin-engine on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install senlin-engine
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is senlin-engine
senlin-engine 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 engine daemon.
There are three methods to install senlin-engine
on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-engine 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-engine
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install senlin-engine
Install senlin-engine Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install senlin-engine
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install senlin-engine
Install senlin-engine 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-engine
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install senlin-engine
How To Uninstall senlin-engine on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the senlin-engine
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove senlin-engine
Uninstall senlin-engine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall senlin-engine
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove senlin-engine
Remove senlin-engine Configurations and Data
To remove senlin-engine
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge senlin-engine
Remove senlin-engine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove senlin-engine
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge senlin-engine
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install senlin-engine
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.