How To Install carbonate on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install carbonate on CentOS 7. carbonate is Utilities for managing graphite clusters

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install carbonate on CentOS 7.

What is carbonate

Graphite clusters are pretty cool. Here are some primitive tools to help you manage your graphite clusters. All of the tools support two common arguments; the path to a config file, and the name of the cluster. Using these tools alongside a config file that describes your graphite clusters you can build up scripts to manage your metrics. Some of the tools could easily be replaced with one-liners in shell, but exist here for convenience and readability. The goal is to provide fast, predictable utilities that can easily be composed into more advanced tooling.

We can use yum or dnf to install carbonate on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install carbonate.

Install carbonate on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install carbonate using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install carbonate

Install carbonate on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install carbonate

How To Uninstall carbonate on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove carbonate

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install carbonate on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.