How To Install barbican-worker on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install barbican-worker on Ubuntu 18.04. barbican-worker is OpenStack Key Management Service - Worker Node

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install barbican-worker on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is barbican-worker

barbican-worker is:

The Barbican project provides services for secure storage, provisioning and management of sensitive client secret information such as encryption keys. It is aims at being useful for all environments, including large ephemeral Clouds.

This package contains the Barbican Worker Node.

There are three methods to install barbican-worker 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 barbican-worker Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install barbican-worker

Install barbican-worker Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install barbican-worker

Install barbican-worker 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 barbican-worker using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install barbican-worker

How To Uninstall barbican-worker on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the barbican-worker package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove barbican-worker

Uninstall barbican-worker And Its Dependencies

To uninstall barbican-worker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove barbican-worker

Remove barbican-worker Configurations and Data

To remove barbican-worker configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge barbican-worker

Remove barbican-worker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge barbican-worker

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install barbican-worker package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.