How To Install custodia.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install custodia.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. custodia.noarch is A service to manage, retrieve and store secrets for other

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install custodia.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is custodia.noarch

A service to manage, retrieve and store secrets for other processes Custodia is a Secrets Service Provider, it stores or proxies access to keys, password, and secret material in general. Custodia is built to use the HTTP protocol and a RESTful API as an IPC mechanism over a local Unix Socket. It can also be exposed to a network via a Reverse Proxy service assuming proper authentication and header validation is implemented in the Proxy. Custodia is modular, the configuration file controls how authentication, authorization, storage and API plugins are combined and exposed.

We can use yum to install custodia.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install custodia.noarch.

Install custodia.noarch 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 custodia.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install custodia.noarch

How To Uninstall custodia.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the custodia.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove custodia.noarch

custodia.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/custodia
/etc/custodia/custodia.conf
/usr/bin/custodia-cli
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/custodia.conf
/usr/sbin/custodia
/usr/share/doc/custodia/API.md
/usr/share/doc/custodia/README
/usr/share/doc/custodia/examples/custodia.conf
/usr/share/licenses/custodia-0.3.1
/usr/share/licenses/custodia-0.3.1/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man7/custodia.7.gz
/var/lib/custodia
/var/log/custodia

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install custodia.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.