How To Install senlin-engine on Debian 12

Learn how to install senlin-engine on Debian 12 with this tutorial. senlin-engine is clustering service for OpenStack clouds - Engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install senlin-engine on Debian 12.

What is senlin-engine

senlin-engine is:

Senlin is a clustering service for OpenStack clouds. It creates and operates clusters of homogeneous objects exposed by other OpenStack services. The goal is to make the orchestration of collections of similar objects easier.

Senlin provides RESTful APIs to users so that they can associate various policies to a cluster. Sample policies include placement policy, load balancing policy, health policy, scaling policy, update policy and so on.

Senlin is designed to be capable of managing different types of objects. An object’s lifecycle is managed using profile type implementations, which are themselves plugins.

This package provides the engine daemon.

There are three methods to install senlin-engine 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 senlin-engine Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install senlin-engine using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install senlin-engine

Install senlin-engine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install senlin-engine

Install senlin-engine 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 senlin-engine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install senlin-engine

How To Uninstall senlin-engine on Debian 12

To uninstall only the senlin-engine package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove senlin-engine

Uninstall senlin-engine And Its Dependencies

To uninstall senlin-engine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove senlin-engine

Remove senlin-engine Configurations and Data

To remove senlin-engine configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge senlin-engine

Remove senlin-engine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge senlin-engine

Dependencies

senlin-engine have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install senlin-engine package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.