How To Install aodh-api on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install aodh-api on Ubuntu 20.04. aodh-api is OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer) Alarming - API server OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer) Alarming - API server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aodh-api on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is aodh-api

aodh-api is:

Ceilometer aims to deliver a Single Point Of Contact for billing systems, providing all the counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters must be traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.

(A ceilometer is an instrument that measures cloud coverage.)

This package contains the API service.

Package: aodh-api Architecture: all Version: 10.0.0~b3~git2020041012.6ae7f90a-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: web Source: aodh Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: PKG OpenStack [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 22 Depends: adduser, apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3, lsb-base, python3-aodh (= 10.0.0~b3~git2020041012.6ae7f90a-0ubuntu1) Suggests: mongodb Filename: pool/main/a/aodh/aodh-api_10.0.0~b3~git2020041012.6ae7f90a-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 2792 MD5sum: b65d3eb7e82f6a18815acf0617817f3c SHA1: a36f27c46646cf7f0ab919bdb88ce893b277d8ac SHA256: 1bf82f20fa7481745858f0cf6eea68f809be18749529b79973d2b15e6069fa44 Homepage: https://github.com/openstack/aodh Description-en: OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer) Alarming - API server Ceilometer aims to deliver a Single Point Of Contact for billing systems, providing all the counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters must be traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.

(A ceilometer is an instrument that measures cloud coverage.)

This package contains the API service.

There are three methods to install aodh-api on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install aodh-api Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install aodh-api using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install aodh-api

Install aodh-api Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install aodh-api using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install aodh-api

Install aodh-api Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install aodh-api using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install aodh-api

How To Uninstall aodh-api on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the aodh-api package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove aodh-api

Uninstall aodh-api And Its Dependencies

To uninstall aodh-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aodh-api

Remove aodh-api Configurations and Data

To remove aodh-api configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge aodh-api

Remove aodh-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove aodh-api configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aodh-api

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aodh-api package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.