How To Install serf on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install serf on Debian 10.
What is serf
serf is:
Serf is a decentralized solution for service discovery and orchestration that is lightweight, highly available, and fault tolerant.
Serf runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. An efficient and lightweight gossip protocol is used to communicate with other nodes. Serf can detect node failures and notify the rest of the cluster. An event system is built on top of Serf, letting you use Serf’s gossip protocol to propagate events such as deploys, configuration changes, etc. Serf is completely masterless with no single point of failure.
This package contains the tool/service.
There are three methods to install serf on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install serf Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install serf using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install serf
Install serf Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install serf using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install serf
Install serf 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 serf using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install serf
How To Uninstall serf on Debian 10
To uninstall only the serf package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove serf
Uninstall serf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall serf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove serf
Remove serf Configurations and Data
To remove serf configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge serf
Remove serf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove serf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge serf
Dependencies
serf have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install serf package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.