How To Install serf on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install serf
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove serf
Remove serf Configurations and Data
To remove serf
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install serf
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.