How To Install hitch on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hitch on CentOS 8.
What is hitch
hitch is a network proxy that terminates TLS/SSL connections and forwards the unencrypted traffic to some backend. It is designed to handle 10s of thousands of connections efficiently on multicore machines.
We can use yum or dnf to install hitch on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hitch.
Install hitch 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 hitch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hitch
Install hitch 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 hitch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hitch
How To Uninstall hitch on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the hitch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hitch
hitch Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/hitch
/etc/hitch/hitch.conf
/etc/systemd/system/hitch.service.d/limit.conf
/run/hitch/hitch.pid
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/77c3e4b380aaebf5bedaa93c1ea63fe1ecbe4c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hitch.service
/usr/sbin/hitch
/usr/share/doc/hitch
/usr/share/doc/hitch/CHANGES.rst
/usr/share/doc/hitch/README.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/architecture.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/certificates.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/configuration.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/hitch.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/hitch/installation.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/proxy-protocol.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/vhosts.md
/usr/share/licenses/hitch
/usr/share/licenses/hitch/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man5/hitch.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hitch.8.gz
/var/lib/hitch
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hitch on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.