How To Install ironic-api on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-api on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ironic-api
ironic-api is:
Ironic is an Incubated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.
This package contains the API.
There are three methods to install ironic-api on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ironic-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 ironic-api using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ironic-api
Install ironic-api Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ironic-api using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ironic-api
Install ironic-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ironic-api using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ironic-api
How To Uninstall ironic-api on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ironic-api package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ironic-api
Uninstall ironic-api And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ironic-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ironic-api
Remove ironic-api Configurations and Data
To remove ironic-api configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ironic-api
Remove ironic-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ironic-api configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ironic-api
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-api package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
