How To Install containerd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install containerd.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is containerd.x86_64
containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. It is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows, which can manage the complete container lifecycle of its host system and storage, container execution and supervision, low-level storage and network attachments, etc.
We can use yum
to install containerd.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install containerd.x86_64.
Install containerd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install containerd.x86_64
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install containerd.x86_64
How To Uninstall containerd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the containerd.x86_64
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove containerd.x86_64
containerd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/containerd/config.toml
/usr/bin/containerd
/usr/bin/containerd-shim
/usr/bin/containerd-shim-runc-v1
/usr/bin/containerd-shim-runc-v2
/usr/bin/ctr
/usr/lib/systemd/system/containerd.service
/usr/share/doc/containerd-1.4.13
/usr/share/doc/containerd-1.4.13/PLUGINS.md
/usr/share/doc/containerd-1.4.13/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/containerd-1.4.13
/usr/share/licenses/containerd-1.4.13/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man5/containerd-config.toml.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/containerd-config.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/containerd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ctr.8.gz
/var/lib/containerd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install containerd.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.