How To Install ovn-central on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ovn-central in Fedora 36. ovn-central is Open Virtual Network support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ovn-central on Fedora 36.

What is `ovn-central`

OVN DB servers and ovn-northd running on a central node.

We can use yum or dnf to install ovn-central on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ovn-central.

Install ovn-central on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ovn-central using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ovn-central

Install ovn-central on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ovn-central using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ovn-central

How To Uninstall ovn-central on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ovn-central package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ovn-central

ovn-central Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ovn-ic
/usr/bin/ovn-northd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/94390ec64ea7e3da902d8b7601c9524d68437a
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/9dfac7240fa104d9beae64e7a2ae9200ae2628
/usr/lib/firewalld/services/ovn-central-firewall-service.xml
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ovn-northd.service
/usr/share/man/man8/ovn-ic.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ovn-northd.8.gz
/usr/share/ovn/ovn-ic-nb.ovsschema
/usr/share/ovn/ovn-ic-sb.ovsschema
/usr/share/ovn/ovn-nb.ovsschema
/usr/share/ovn/ovn-sb.ovsschema

References

ovn-central website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ovn-central on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).