How To Install ironic-inspector on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-inspector on Debian 9.
What is ironic-inspector
ironic-inspector is:
This is an auxiliary service for discovering hardware properties for a node managed by OpenStack Ironic. Hardware introspection or hardware properties discovery is a process of getting hardware parameters required for scheduling from a bare metal node, given it’s power management credentials (e.g. IPMI address, user name and password).
A special discovery ramdisk is required to collect the information on a node. The default one can be built using diskimage-builder and ironic-inspector-ramdisk element.
This package contains the daemon.
There are three methods to install ironic-inspector on Debian 9. 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-inspector 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-inspector using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ironic-inspector
Install ironic-inspector Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ironic-inspector using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ironic-inspector
Install ironic-inspector 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 ironic-inspector using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ironic-inspector
How To Uninstall ironic-inspector on Debian 9
To uninstall only the ironic-inspector package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ironic-inspector
Uninstall ironic-inspector And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ironic-inspector and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ironic-inspector
Remove ironic-inspector Configurations and Data
To remove ironic-inspector configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ironic-inspector
Remove ironic-inspector configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ironic-inspector configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ironic-inspector
Dependencies
ironic-inspector have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-inspector package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.