How To Install nova-volume on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-volume on Kali Linux. nova-volume is OpenStack Compute - storage metapackage

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-volume on Kali Linux.

What is nova-volume

nova-volume 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 designed to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. In addition to its “native” OpenStack API, it also supports the Amazon EC2 API, and it supports many different database backends (including SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL), hypervisors (KVM, Xen), and user directory systems (LDAP, SQL).

This metapackage is for the transition from nova-volume to Cinder.

There are three methods to install nova-volume on Kali Linux. 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-volume 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-volume using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nova-volume

Install nova-volume Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nova-volume

Install nova-volume Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install nova-volume using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nova-volume

How To Uninstall nova-volume on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the nova-volume package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nova-volume

Uninstall nova-volume And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nova-volume and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-volume

Remove nova-volume Configurations and Data

To remove nova-volume configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nova-volume

Remove nova-volume configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-volume

Dependencies

nova-volume have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-volume package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.