How To Install custodia on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install custodia on CentOS 7.
What is custodia
A service to manage, retrieve and store secrets for other processes Custodia is a Secrets Service Provider, it stores or proxies access to keys, password, and secret material in general. Custodia is built to use the HTTP protocol and a RESTful API as an IPC mechanism over a local Unix Socket. It can also be exposed to a network via a Reverse Proxy service assuming proper authentication and header validation is implemented in the Proxy. Custodia is modular, the configuration file controls how authentication, authorization, storage and API plugins are combined and exposed.
We can use yum or dnf to install custodia on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install custodia.
Install custodia on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install custodia using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install custodia
Install custodia 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 custodia using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install custodia
How To Uninstall custodia on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the custodia package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove custodia
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install custodia on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
