How To Install hibagent.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install hibagent.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. hibagent.noarch is Hibernation trigger utility for AWS EC2

Introduction

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

What is `hibagent.noarch`

An EC2 agent that watches for instance stop notifications and initiates hibernation

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

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

sudo yum -y install hibagent.noarch

How To Uninstall hibagent.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove hibagent.noarch

hibagent.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/hibagent-config.cfg
/usr/bin/enable-ec2-spot-hibernation
/usr/bin/hibagent
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hibagent-1.1.0-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hibagent.service
/usr/share/doc/hibagent-1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/hibagent-1.1.0/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/doc/hibagent-1.1.0/README.md

References

hibagent.noarch website

Summary

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