How To Install skydns on Fedora 34

skydns is DNS service discovery for etcd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install skydns on Fedora 34.

What is skydns

DNS service discovery for etcd.

We can use yum or dnf to install skydns on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install skydns.

Install skydns 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 skydns using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install skydns

Install skydns 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 skydns using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install skydns

How To Uninstall skydns on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove skydns

skydns Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/skydns
/etc/skydns/skydns.conf
/usr/bin/skydns
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/ce270eeec4cb3a8fb2b14aecb4184bb73edd04
/usr/lib/systemd/system/skydns.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/skydns.socket
/usr/share/doc/skydns
/usr/share/doc/skydns/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/skydns/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/skydns/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/skydns
/usr/share/licenses/skydns/LICENSE
/var/lib/skydns

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install skydns on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.