How To Install Pound on CentOS 8

Pound is Reverse proxy and load balancer

Introduction

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

What is Pound

The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL - no warranty, it’s free to use, copy and give away

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

Install Pound 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 Pound using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install Pound

Install Pound 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 Pound using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install Pound

How To Uninstall Pound on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove Pound

Pound Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/pki/tls/certs/pound.pem
/etc/pound.cfg
/usr/bin/poundctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/713ea99f012cc46b39d3e242f78f59196d0fa5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/462a140cbd4b4ff20e9586ea0560c7f0c28b51
/usr/lib/systemd/system/pound.service
/usr/sbin/pound
/usr/share/doc/Pound
/usr/share/doc/Pound/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/Pound/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/Pound/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/Pound
/usr/share/licenses/Pound/GPL.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/pound.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/poundctl.8.gz
/var/lib/pound

References

Summary

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