How To Install nova-conductor on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-conductor
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nova-conductor
nova-conductor is:
OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.
OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller. In addition to its “native” API (the OpenStack API), it also supports the Amazon EC2 API.
Nova is intended to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. It supports many different hypervisors (KVM and Xen to name a few), different database backends (SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, for instance), different types of user databases (LDAP or SQL), etc.
This is the Nova conductor service component
Package: nova-conductor Architecture: all Version: 2:21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2 Priority: extra Section: net Source: nova Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Openstack Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 60 Depends: python3-nova (= 2:21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2) Filename: pool/main/n/nova/nova-conductor_21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 6484 MD5sum: 2a6e1a3c7d9840ce3fd42b5fe106d5a7 SHA1: 102ea0b2ab40a1daf1081f85f08f0da614ed8c37 SHA256: ba9452227dae7a74bce76d6584b4126c86b488ede93dd6d4d9acfdd10fbcd0d3 Homepage: https://launchpad.net/nova Description-en: OpenStack Compute - conductor service OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.
OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller. In addition to its “native” API (the OpenStack API), it also supports the Amazon EC2 API.
Nova is intended to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. It supports many different hypervisors (KVM and Xen to name a few), different database backends (SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, for instance), different types of user databases (LDAP or SQL), etc.
This is the Nova conductor service component
There are three methods to install nova-conductor
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nova-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 nova-conductor
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-conductor
Install nova-conductor Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-conductor
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-conductor
Install nova-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 nova-conductor
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-conductor
How To Uninstall nova-conductor on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nova-conductor
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-conductor
Uninstall nova-conductor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-conductor
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-conductor
Remove nova-conductor Configurations and Data
To remove nova-conductor
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-conductor
Remove nova-conductor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-conductor
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-conductor
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-conductor
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.