How To Install glance-api on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install glance-api on Debian 11. glance-api is OpenStack Image Registry and Delivery Service - API server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glance-api on Debian 11.

What is glance-api

glance-api is:

The Glance project provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images over the cloud. They may be stand-alone services, or may be used to deliver images from object stores, such as OpenStack’s Swift service, to Nova’s compute nodes.

This package contains the Glance API server.

There are three methods to install glance-api on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install glance-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 glance-api using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install glance-api

Install glance-api Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install glance-api

Install glance-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install glance-api

How To Uninstall glance-api on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove glance-api

Uninstall glance-api And Its Dependencies

To uninstall glance-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove glance-api

Remove glance-api Configurations and Data

To remove glance-api configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge glance-api

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

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

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

Dependencies

glance-api have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glance-api package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.