How To Install containerd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install containerd on CentOS 7.
What is containerd
containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. It is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows, which can manage the complete container lifecycle of its host system and storage, container execution and supervision, low-level storage and network attachments, etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install containerd on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install containerd.
Install containerd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install containerd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install containerd
Install containerd 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 containerd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install containerd
How To Uninstall containerd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the containerd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove containerd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install containerd on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.