How To Install openstack-cluster-installer-cli on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openstack-cluster-installer-cli on Kali Linux.

What is openstack-cluster-installer-cli

openstack-cluster-installer-cli is:

OCI (OpenStack Cluster Installer) is a software to provision an OpenStack clusters automatically. This package installs a provisioning machine, which uses the below components:

• a DHCP server (isc-dhcp-server)
• a PXE boot server (tftp-hpa)
• a web server (apache2)
• a puppet-master

Once computers in the cluster boot for the first time, a Debian live system is served by OCI over PXE, to act as a discovery image. This live system then reports the hardware features back to OCI. Computers can then be installed with Debian from that live system, configured with a puppet-agent that will connect to the puppet-master of OCI. After Debian is installed, the server reboots, and OpenStack services are provisionned, depending on the server role in the cluster.

OCI is fully packaged in Debian, including all of the Puppet modules. After installing the OCI package and its dependencies, no other artificat needs to be installed on your provisioning server, meaning that if a local debian mirror is available, the OpenStack cluster installation can be done completely offline.

This package contains the command line interface (CLI) API client.

There are three methods to install openstack-cluster-installer-cli 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 openstack-cluster-installer-cli Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install openstack-cluster-installer-cli using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install openstack-cluster-installer-cli

Install openstack-cluster-installer-cli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install openstack-cluster-installer-cli using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install openstack-cluster-installer-cli

Install openstack-cluster-installer-cli 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 openstack-cluster-installer-cli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openstack-cluster-installer-cli

How To Uninstall openstack-cluster-installer-cli on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the openstack-cluster-installer-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openstack-cluster-installer-cli

Uninstall openstack-cluster-installer-cli And Its Dependencies

To uninstall openstack-cluster-installer-cli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openstack-cluster-installer-cli

Remove openstack-cluster-installer-cli Configurations and Data

To remove openstack-cluster-installer-cli configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openstack-cluster-installer-cli

Remove openstack-cluster-installer-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove openstack-cluster-installer-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openstack-cluster-installer-cli

Dependencies

openstack-cluster-installer-cli have the following dependencies:

• curl
• csvkit
• gridsite-clients
• q-text-as-data

References

• openstack-cluster-installer-cli website

Summary

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