How To Install neutron-bgp-dragent on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neutron-bgp-dragent on Debian 9.
What is neutron-bgp-dragent
neutron-bgp-dragent is:
Neutron provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual networks. These networks connect “interfaces” from other OpenStack services (such as vNICs from Nova VMs). The Neutron API supports extensions to provide advanced network capabilities, including QoS, ACLs, and network monitoring.
Neutron dynamic routing enables advertisement of self-service (private) network prefixes to physical network devices that support dynamic routing protocols such as routers, thus removing the conventional dependency on static routes.
It advertises three classes of routes:
- Host routes for floating IP addresses hosted on non-DVR routers, the nexthop is the centralized router.
- Host routes for floating IP addresses hosted on DVR routers, the nexthop is the appropriate compute node.
- Prefix routes for directly routable tenant networks with address scopes, the nexthop is the centralized router, the same for DVR and CVR.
Neutron dynamic routing consists of service plug-in and agent. The service plug-in implements the Networking service extension and the agent manages dynamic routing protocol peering sessions. The plug-in communicates with the agent through RPC.
This package contains the Dynamic Routing agent.
There are three methods to install neutron-bgp-dragent 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 neutron-bgp-dragent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install neutron-bgp-dragent using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install neutron-bgp-dragent
Install neutron-bgp-dragent Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install neutron-bgp-dragent using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install neutron-bgp-dragent
Install neutron-bgp-dragent 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 neutron-bgp-dragent using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install neutron-bgp-dragent
How To Uninstall neutron-bgp-dragent on Debian 9
To uninstall only the neutron-bgp-dragent package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove neutron-bgp-dragent
Uninstall neutron-bgp-dragent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall neutron-bgp-dragent and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove neutron-bgp-dragent
Remove neutron-bgp-dragent Configurations and Data
To remove neutron-bgp-dragent configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge neutron-bgp-dragent
Remove neutron-bgp-dragent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove neutron-bgp-dragent configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neutron-bgp-dragent
Dependencies
neutron-bgp-dragent have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neutron-bgp-dragent package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.