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

Introduction

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

What is openstack-cluster-installer-common

openstack-cluster-installer-common 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 tools necessary both in the Debian Live environment and in the installed systems. This include the hardware discovery script, which conveniently, can be run manually after a system is installed, so that the hardware configuration of a node can be updated.

There are three methods to install openstack-cluster-installer-common 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install openstack-cluster-installer-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uninstall openstack-cluster-installer-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall openstack-cluster-installer-common 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-common

Remove openstack-cluster-installer-common Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

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

• curl
• dmidecode
• ipmitool
• iproute2
• jq
• libxml-xpath-perl
• lldpd
• lsb-base
• lshw
• lsscsi
• netcat-traditional
• nmap

References

• openstack-cluster-installer-common website

Summary

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