How To Install neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent 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.
Tap-as-a-Service (TaaS) is an extension to the OpenStack network service (Neutron). It provides remote port mirroring capability for tenant virtual networks.
Port mirroring involves sending a copy of packets entering and/or leaving one port to another port, which is usually different from the original destinations of the packets being mirrored.
This service has been primarily designed to help tenants (or the cloud administrator) debug complex virtual networks and gain visibility into their VMs, by monitoring the network traffic associated with them. TaaS honors tenant boundaries and its mirror sessions are capable of spanning across multiple compute and network nodes. It serves as an essential infrastructure component that can be utilized for supplying data to a variety of network analytics and security applications (e.g. IDS).
This package provides the Tap-as-a-Service agent for Open vSwitch.
There are three methods to install neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
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 neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent 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-taas-openvswitch-agent
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
Install neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
Install neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent 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 neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
How To Uninstall neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
Uninstall neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
Remove neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent Configurations and Data
To remove neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
Remove neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neutron-taas-openvswitch-agent
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.