How To Install ironic-conductor on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-conductor on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ironic-conductor
ironic-conductor 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 conductor.
There are three methods to install ironic-conductor 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-conductor 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-conductor using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ironic-conductor
Install ironic-conductor Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ironic-conductor using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ironic-conductor
Install ironic-conductor 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-conductor using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ironic-conductor
How To Uninstall ironic-conductor on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ironic-conductor package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ironic-conductor
Uninstall ironic-conductor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ironic-conductor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ironic-conductor
Remove ironic-conductor Configurations and Data
To remove ironic-conductor configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ironic-conductor
Remove ironic-conductor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ironic-conductor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ironic-conductor
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-conductor package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
