How To Install waagent on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install waagent
on Debian 11.
What is waagent
waagent is:
The Windows Azure Linux Agent (waagent) manages VM interaction with the Windows Azure Fabric Controller. It provides the following functionality for IaaS deployments:
Image Provisioning
- Creation of a user account
- Configuring SSH authentication types
- Deployment of SSH public keys and key pairs
- Setting the host name
- Publishing the host name to the platform DNS
- Reporting SSH host key fingerprint to the platform
- Resource Disk Management
- Formatting and mounting the resource disk
- Configuring swap space
Networking
- Manages routes to improve compatibility with platform DHCP servers
- Ensures the stability of the network interface name
Kernel
- Configure virtual NUMA (disable for kernel <2.6.37)
- Consume Hyper-V entropy for /dev/random
- Configure SCSI timeouts for the root device (which could be remote)
Diagnostics
- Console redirection to the serial port
SCVMM Deployments
- Detect and bootstrap the VMM agent for Linux when running in a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2 environment
VM Extension
- Inject component authored by Microsoft and Partners into Linux VM (IaaS) to enable software and configuration automation see https://github.com/Azure/azure-linux-extensions
There are three methods to install waagent
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install waagent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install waagent
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install waagent
Install waagent Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install waagent
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install waagent
Install waagent 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 waagent
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install waagent
How To Uninstall waagent on Debian 11
To uninstall only the waagent
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove waagent
Uninstall waagent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall waagent
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove waagent
Remove waagent Configurations and Data
To remove waagent
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge waagent
Remove waagent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove waagent
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge waagent
Dependencies
waagent have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install waagent
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.