How To Install magnum-api on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install magnum-api on Debian 9.
What is magnum-api
magnum-api is:
Magnum is an OpenStack project which offers container orchestration engines for deploying and managing containers as first class resources in OpenStack. It features:
- Abstractions for bays, containers, nodes, pods, replication controllers, and services
- Integration with Kubernetes and Docker for backend container technology
- Integration with Keystone for multi-tenant security
- Integration with Neutron for Kubernetes multi-tenancy network security
This package contains the API server.
There are three methods to install magnum-api 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 magnum-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 magnum-api using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install magnum-api
Install magnum-api Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install magnum-api using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install magnum-api
Install magnum-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install magnum-api using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install magnum-api
How To Uninstall magnum-api on Debian 9
To uninstall only the magnum-api package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove magnum-api
Uninstall magnum-api And Its Dependencies
To uninstall magnum-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove magnum-api
Remove magnum-api Configurations and Data
To remove magnum-api configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge magnum-api
Remove magnum-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove magnum-api configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge magnum-api
Dependencies
magnum-api have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install magnum-api package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.