How To Install ignition on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ignition
on CentOS 7.
What is ignition
Ignition is a utility used to manipulate systems during the initramfs. This includes partitioning disks, formatting partitions, writing files (regular files, systemd units, networkd units, etc.), and configuring users. On first boot, Ignition reads its configuration from a source of truth (remote URL, network metadata service, hypervisor bridge, etc.) and applies the configuration.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ignition
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ignition.
Install ignition on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ignition
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ignition 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.
After updating yum database, We can install ignition
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ignition on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ignition
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ignition
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.