How To Install ironic-inspector on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-inspector on Ubuntu 20.04. ironic-inspector is discovering hardware properties for OpenStack Ironic - Daemon discovering hardware properties for OpenStack Ironic - Daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-inspector on Ubuntu 20.04.

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.

Package: ironic-inspector Architecture: all Version: 1:10.0.1~git2020041316.14b425e-0ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/python Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian OpenStack [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 208 Depends: adduser, dbconfig-common, python3-ironic-inspector (= 1:10.0.1~git2020041316.14b425e-0ubuntu1), q-text-as-data, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Filename: pool/universe/i/ironic-inspector/ironic-inspector_10.0.1~git2020041316.14b425e-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 34688 MD5sum: d8648e93b9c9f41e6d087b81eaa8fb11 SHA1: 602c03e7025c13e86b2c6ebefdad3f930569833f SHA256: 02f332044ceb799afc9a584dc721266f9df1e44684600eef2bb01b8681276d60 Homepage: https://github.com/openstack/ironic-inspector Description-en: discovering hardware properties for OpenStack Ironic - Daemon 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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04

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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-inspector package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.