How To Install custodia on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install custodia on Fedora 34.
What is custodia
A service to manage, retrieve and store secrets for other processes Custodia is a Secrets Service Provider, it stores or proxies access to keys, password, and secret material in general. Custodia is built to use the HTTP protocol and a RESTful API as an IPC mechanism over a local Unix Socket. It can also be exposed to a network via a Reverse Proxy service assuming proper authentication and header validation is implemented in the Proxy. Custodia is modular, the configuration file controls how authentication, authorization, storage and API plugins are combined and exposed.
We can use yum or dnf to install custodia on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install custodia.
Install custodia on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install custodia using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install custodia
Install custodia on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install custodia using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install custodia
How To Uninstall custodia on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the custodia package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove custodia
custodia Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/custodia
/etc/custodia/custodia.conf
/usr/bin/custodia-cli
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/custodia.conf
/usr/sbin/custodia
/usr/share/doc/custodia
/usr/share/doc/custodia/API.md
/usr/share/doc/custodia/README
/usr/share/doc/custodia/examples/custodia.conf
/usr/share/licenses/custodia
/usr/share/licenses/custodia/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man7/custodia.7.gz
/var/lib/custodia
/var/log/custodia
/var/run/custodia
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install custodia on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
