How To Install resalloc on CentOS 8

resalloc is Resource allocator for expensive resources - client tooling

Introduction

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

What is resalloc

The resalloc project aims to help with taking care of dynamically allocated resources, for example ephemeral virtual machines used for the purposes of CI/CD tasks. The resalloc package provides the client-side tooling.

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

Install resalloc 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 resalloc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install resalloc

Install resalloc 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 resalloc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install resalloc

How To Uninstall resalloc on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove resalloc

resalloc Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/resalloc
/usr/share/doc/resalloc
/usr/share/doc/resalloc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/resalloc/README
/usr/share/licenses/resalloc
/usr/share/licenses/resalloc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/resalloc.1.gz

References

Summary

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