How To Install magnum-conductor on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install magnum-conductor on Ubuntu 18.04. magnum-conductor is OpenStack containers as a service - conductor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install magnum-conductor on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is magnum-conductor

magnum-conductor 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 conductor server.

There are three methods to install magnum-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 magnum-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 magnum-conductor using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install magnum-conductor

Install magnum-conductor Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install magnum-conductor using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install magnum-conductor

Install magnum-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 magnum-conductor using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install magnum-conductor

How To Uninstall magnum-conductor on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the magnum-conductor package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove magnum-conductor

Uninstall magnum-conductor And Its Dependencies

To uninstall magnum-conductor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove magnum-conductor

Remove magnum-conductor Configurations and Data

To remove magnum-conductor configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge magnum-conductor

Remove magnum-conductor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove magnum-conductor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge magnum-conductor

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install magnum-conductor package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.