How To Install paternoster on CentOS 8

paternoster is Allows to run ansible playbooks like ordinary python or bash scripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install paternoster on CentOS 8.

What is paternoster

Paternoster enables ansible playbooks to be run like normal bash or python scripts. It parses the given parameters using python’s argparse and then passes them on to the actual playbook via the ansible API. In addition it provides an automated way to run commands as another user, which can be used to give normal shell users special privileges, while still having a sleek and easy to understand user interface.

We can use yum or dnf to install paternoster on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install paternoster.

Install paternoster 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 paternoster using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paternoster

Install paternoster 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 paternoster using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paternoster

How To Uninstall paternoster on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the paternoster package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove paternoster

paternoster Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/paternoster
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.6.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.6.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.6.egg-info/zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/paternoster.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/paternoster.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/root.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/root.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/shebang.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/shebang.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/paternoster.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/root.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/runners
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/ansiblerunner.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/ansiblerunner.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/runners/ansiblerunner.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/shebang.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/types
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/types/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/types/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/types/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/paternoster/types/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/share/doc/paternoster
/usr/share/doc/paternoster/README.md
/usr/share/doc/paternoster/script_development.md
/usr/share/licenses/paternoster
/usr/share/licenses/paternoster/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install paternoster on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.