How To Install etcd-server on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install etcd-server
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is etcd-server
etcd-server is:
A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery. etcd is inspired by zookeeper and doozer, with a focus on:
- Simple: curl’able user facing API (HTTP+JSON)
- Secure: optional SSL client cert authentication
- Fast: benchmarked 1000s of writes/s per instance
- Reliable: Properly distributed using Raft
Etcd uses the Raft consensus algorithm to manage a highly-available replicated log.
This package contains the server binaries.
There are three methods to install etcd-server
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 etcd-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install etcd-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install etcd-server
Install etcd-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install etcd-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install etcd-server
Install etcd-server 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 etcd-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install etcd-server
How To Uninstall etcd-server on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the etcd-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove etcd-server
Uninstall etcd-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall etcd-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove etcd-server
Remove etcd-server Configurations and Data
To remove etcd-server
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge etcd-server
Remove etcd-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove etcd-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge etcd-server
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install etcd-server
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.