How To Install cloud-utils on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-utils on CentOS 7.
What is cloud-utils
This package provides a useful set of utilities for managing cloud images. The euca2ools package (a dependency of cloud-utils) provides an Amazon EC2 API compatible set of utilities for bundling kernels, ramdisks, and root filesystems, and uploading them to either EC2 or UEC. The tasks associated with image bundling are often tedious and repetitive. The cloud-utils package provides several scripts that wrap the complicated tasks with a much simpler interface.
We can use yum or dnf to install cloud-utils on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cloud-utils.
Install cloud-utils on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install cloud-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cloud-utils
Install cloud-utils 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 cloud-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cloud-utils
How To Uninstall cloud-utils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cloud-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cloud-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-utils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
