How To Install cephadm on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cephadm on Ubuntu 20.04. cephadm is cephadm utility to bootstrap ceph daemons with systemd and containers cephadm utility to bootstrap ceph daemons with systemd and containers cephadm utility to bootstrap ceph daemons with systemd and containers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cephadm on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is cephadm

cephadm is:

Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage.

The cephadm utility is used to bootstrap a Ceph cluster and to manage ceph daemons deployed with systemd and containers.

Package: cephadm Architecture: amd64 Version: 15.2.12-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: ceph Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Ceph Packaging Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 296 Depends: lvm2, python3:any Recommends: docker.io Filename: pool/universe/c/ceph/cephadm_15.2.12-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb Size: 57724 MD5sum: 8028479e1971ff3ecfcbc56cfc9ace6c SHA1: 94b530d3a552f562f6fafd1eee4c326f79fed7a2 SHA256: f57fb5926d860bd1e6cdf009d878966776effc312e1152303f7fd9590f2f1bc7 SHA512: 5018564fe73ddd22b711acc5c1c060018b876a1b6f76c5cf98573118ab797148044881f5999d95ab41c69f39f881cc2b985ed42dcc648e4ac414a3cd9757823b Homepage: http://ceph.com/ Description-en: cephadm utility to bootstrap ceph daemons with systemd and containers Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage.

The cephadm utility is used to bootstrap a Ceph cluster and to manage ceph daemons deployed with systemd and containers.

Package: cephadm Architecture: amd64 Version: 15.2.1-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: ceph Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Ceph Packaging Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 233 Depends: lvm2, python3:any Recommends: docker.io Filename: pool/universe/c/ceph/cephadm_15.2.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 45688 MD5sum: e00636ce66d1624d10a1f2631247b81f SHA1: 1b34e14b46b756112280be87afa97f2ab9c4bd01 SHA256: 75323c635da59bdc191ed6bd3421c017d40265e4b3f9aa5b5762de2b3d7ab81b Homepage: http://ceph.com/ Description-en: cephadm utility to bootstrap ceph daemons with systemd and containers Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage.

The cephadm utility is used to bootstrap a Ceph cluster and to manage ceph daemons deployed with systemd and containers.

There are three methods to install cephadm 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 cephadm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cephadm

Install cephadm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cephadm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cephadm

Install cephadm 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 cephadm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cephadm

How To Uninstall cephadm on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove cephadm

Uninstall cephadm And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cephadm

Remove cephadm Configurations and Data

To remove cephadm configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cephadm

Remove cephadm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cephadm

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Summary

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