How To Install octavia-agent on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install octavia-agent on Debian 12.
What is octavia-agent
octavia-agent is:
Openstack Load Balancer as a Service, codenamed Octavia was borne out of the Neutron LBaaS project. Its conception influenced the transformation of the Neutron LBaaS project, as Neutron LBaaS moved from version 1 to version 2. Starting with the Liberty release of OpenStack, Octavia has become the reference implementation for Neutron LBaaS version 2.
Octavia accomplishes its delivery of load balancing services by managing a fleet of virtual machines, containers, or bare metal servers -collectively known as amphorae- which it spins up on demand. This on-demand, horizontal scaling feature differentiates Octavia from other load balancing solutions, thereby making Octavia truly suited “for the cloud”.
This package contains the Octavia Agent that needs to be installed in the Amphorae base image.
There are three methods to install octavia-agent on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install octavia-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 octavia-agent using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install octavia-agent
Install octavia-agent Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install octavia-agent using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install octavia-agent
Install octavia-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install octavia-agent using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install octavia-agent
How To Uninstall octavia-agent on Debian 12
To uninstall only the octavia-agent package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove octavia-agent
Uninstall octavia-agent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall octavia-agent and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove octavia-agent
Remove octavia-agent Configurations and Data
To remove octavia-agent configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge octavia-agent
Remove octavia-agent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove octavia-agent configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge octavia-agent
Dependencies
octavia-agent have the following dependencies:
- acl
- adduser
- anacron
- apparmor
- at
- cron
- cryptsetup
- curl
- dbconfig-common
- dbus
- debconf
- dirmngr
- dmeventd
- ethtool
- gawk
- gpg
- gpg-agent
- haproxy
- haveged
- ifenslave
- ifupdown
- iptables
- iputils-ping
- iputils-tracepath
- ipvsadm
- keepalived
- net-tools
- netbase
- netcat-openbsd
- octavia-common
- pollinate
- psmisc
- python3-openstackclient
- q-text-as-data
- rsyslog
- socat
- uuid-runtime
- vlan
- lsb-base
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install octavia-agent package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
