How To Install hitch on CentOS 8

hitch is Network proxy that terminates TLS/SSL connections

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.