How To Install hiera on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hiera on CentOS 8.
What is hiera
A simple hierarchical database supporting plugin data sources.
We can use yum or dnf to install hiera on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hiera.
Install hiera on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install hiera using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hiera
Install hiera on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install hiera using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hiera
How To Uninstall hiera on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the hiera package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hiera
hiera Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/hiera
/usr/share/doc/hiera
/usr/share/doc/hiera/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/hiera/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/hiera/README.md
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/backend
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/backend.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/backend/json_backend.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/backend/yaml_backend.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/config.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/console_logger.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/error.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/fallback_logger.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/filecache.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/interpolate.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/noop_logger.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/puppet_logger.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/recursive_guard.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/util
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/util.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/util/win32.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/hiera/version.rb
/var/lib/hiera
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hiera on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.