How To Install skydns on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install skydns on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is skydns
skydns is:
SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd. It utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights.
There are three methods to install skydns on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install skydns Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install skydns using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install skydns
Install skydns Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install skydns using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install skydns
Install skydns 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 skydns using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install skydns
How To Uninstall skydns on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the skydns package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove skydns
Uninstall skydns And Its Dependencies
To uninstall skydns and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove skydns
Remove skydns Configurations and Data
To remove skydns configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge skydns
Remove skydns configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove skydns configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge skydns
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install skydns package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
