How To Install hitch on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hitch on Rocky Linux 8.
What is hitch
hitch is a network proxy that terminates TLS/SSL connections and forwards the unencrypted traffic to some backend. It is designed to handle 10s of thousands of connections efficiently on multicore machines.
We can use yum or dnf to install hitch on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hitch.
Install hitch on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install hitch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hitch
Install hitch on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install hitch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hitch
How To Uninstall hitch on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the hitch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hitch
hitch Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/hitch
/etc/hitch/hitch.conf
/etc/systemd/system/hitch.service.d/limit.conf
/run/hitch/hitch.pid
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/77c3e4b380aaebf5bedaa93c1ea63fe1ecbe4c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hitch.service
/usr/sbin/hitch
/usr/share/doc/hitch
/usr/share/doc/hitch/CHANGES.rst
/usr/share/doc/hitch/README.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/architecture.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/certificates.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/configuration.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/hitch.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/hitch/installation.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/proxy-protocol.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/vhosts.md
/usr/share/licenses/hitch
/usr/share/licenses/hitch/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man5/hitch.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hitch.8.gz
/var/lib/hitch
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hitch on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.