How To Install neutron-server on Debian 10

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neutron-server on Debian 10.

What is neutron-server

neutron-server 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.

As the Debian packages switched to Python 3, it isn’t possible to run using Eventlet (ie: the standalone neutron-server daemon) if we use SSL, because of defects in python3-eventlet. So the Debian package maitainer decided to switch to uwsgi instead. In this mode, one needs to also run neutron-rpc-server to listen for requests on the message bus (ie: rabbitmq in most cases). For this reason, the neutron-server package has been split into neutron-api and neutron-rpc-server.

Transition package for neutron-server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install neutron-server

Install neutron-server Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install neutron-server

Install neutron-server 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-server using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install neutron-server

How To Uninstall neutron-server on Debian 10

To uninstall only the neutron-server package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove neutron-server

Uninstall neutron-server And Its Dependencies

To uninstall neutron-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove neutron-server

Remove neutron-server Configurations and Data

To remove neutron-server configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge neutron-server

Remove neutron-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neutron-server

Dependencies

neutron-server have the following dependencies:

• neutron-api

References

• neutron-server website
• neutron-server on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install neutron-server package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.