How To Install cinder-api on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinder-api on Ubuntu 20.04. cinder-api is Cinder storage service - API server Cinder storage service - API server Cinder storage service - API server

Introduction

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

What is cinder-api

cinder-api is:

OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.

Cinder is the OpenStack Block storage service.

This package contains the Cinder API server.

Package: cinder-api Architecture: all Version: 2:16.1.0-0ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: net Source: cinder Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Chuck Short [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 30 Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3, python3-cinder (= 2:16.1.0-0ubuntu1) Filename: pool/main/c/cinder/cinder-api_16.1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 3148 MD5sum: 3a7be73e250baa30cc73fae1d191e0e0 SHA1: efa6c6317574863b7e19d66abdbea0206ae38e74 SHA256: f0a14e20d85b808159c11627805d1a8a05334205c4f9f47939433566a70572b8 SHA512: 7a178072eccdd09dd885df7843784e9be7f4f212ed951cf5f91533dd9adcc2a66c863f78855d75fc5311f4af191c95ea8331f6c8f49e12cac6021fe468ea5cc0 Homepage: https://launchpad.net/cinder Description-en: Cinder storage service - API server OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.

Cinder is the OpenStack Block storage service.

This package contains the Cinder API server.

Package: cinder-api Architecture: all Version: 2:16.0.0~b3~git2020041012.eb915e2db-0ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: net Source: cinder Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Chuck Short [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 30 Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3, python3-cinder (= 2:16.0.0~b3~git2020041012.eb915e2db-0ubuntu1) Filename: pool/main/c/cinder/cinder-api_16.0.0~b3~git2020041012.eb915e2db-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 3168 MD5sum: f6baefa4481778e20e116ddc9bfc05e2 SHA1: d18d50f56502308f3aabe9a8c2c37787ca35e1ab SHA256: 86320d92a3306e8424b49ee4edaf730e5a11256bee4d4ab48ff3bcfb4c7259d0 Homepage: https://launchpad.net/cinder Description-en: Cinder storage service - API server OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.

Cinder is the OpenStack Block storage service.

This package contains the Cinder API server.

There are three methods to install cinder-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 cinder-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 cinder-api using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cinder-api

Install cinder-api Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cinder-api

Install cinder-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 cinder-api using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cinder-api

How To Uninstall cinder-api on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove cinder-api

Uninstall cinder-api And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cinder-api

Remove cinder-api Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cinder-api

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

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

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

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Summary

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