How To Install nova-network on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-network
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is nova-network
nova-network 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 package you will install on the network nodes. This service is responsible for managing floating and fixed IPs, DHCP, bridging and VLANs, and in some cases acts as a gateway. Different networking strategies are available to the service by changing the network_manager flag to FlatManager, FlatDHCPManager, or VlanManager (default is VLAN).
There are three methods to install nova-network
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 nova-network 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-network
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-network
Install nova-network Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-network
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-network
Install nova-network 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-network
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-network
How To Uninstall nova-network on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the nova-network
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-network
Uninstall nova-network And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-network
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-network
Remove nova-network Configurations and Data
To remove nova-network
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-network
Remove nova-network configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-network
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-network
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-network
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.