How To Install itamae on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install itamae
on Debian 10.
What is itamae
itamae is:
Itamae is a simple and lightweight configuration management tool inspired by Chef. It has a Chef-like DSL, recipes only, and is idempotent.
Itamae can run locally, or over SSH. It can also operate on Docker or Vagrant targets. Itamae leverages the Serverspec/Specinfra project to be OS agnostic.
There are three methods to install itamae
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install itamae Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install itamae
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install itamae
Install itamae Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install itamae
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install itamae
Install itamae 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 itamae
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install itamae
How To Uninstall itamae on Debian 10
To uninstall only the itamae
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove itamae
Uninstall itamae And Its Dependencies
To uninstall itamae
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove itamae
Remove itamae Configurations and Data
To remove itamae
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge itamae
Remove itamae configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove itamae
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge itamae
Dependencies
itamae have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install itamae
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.