How To Install testcloud on CentOS 8

testcloud is Tool for running cloud images locally

Introduction

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

What is testcloud

testcloud is a relatively simple system which is capable of booting images designed for cloud systems on a local system with minimal configuration. testcloud is designed to be (and remain) somewhat simple, trading fancy cloud system features for ease of use and sanity in development.

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

Install testcloud 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 testcloud using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install testcloud

Install testcloud 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 testcloud using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install testcloud

How To Uninstall testcloud on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove testcloud

testcloud Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/99-testcloud-nonroot-libvirt-access.rules
/etc/testcloud
/etc/testcloud/settings.py
/usr/bin/t7d
/usr/bin/testcloud
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/testcloud
/usr/share/doc/testcloud
/usr/share/doc/testcloud/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/testcloud
/usr/share/licenses/testcloud/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/testcloud.1.gz
/var/lib/testcloud
/var/lib/testcloud/backingstores
/var/lib/testcloud/domain-coreos-template.jinja
/var/lib/testcloud/domain-template.jinja
/var/lib/testcloud/instances

References

Summary

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