How To Install containerd on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install containerd on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is containerd
containerd is:
Containerd is a daemon to control runC, built for performance and density. Containerd leverages runC’s advanced features such as seccomp and user namespace support as well as checkpoint and restore for cloning and live migration of containers.
This package contains the binaries.
Package: containerd Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.3.3-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 127146 Depends: runc (>= 1.0.0~rc2~), libc6 (>= 2.4), libseccomp2 (>= 2.4.1) Filename: pool/main/c/containerd/containerd_1.3.3-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 27774600 MD5sum: ecaa18c80e21dd5a26d7e22809370107 SHA1: 3f5a30cf7f506bb6f6ed88bd93c73c216582039c SHA256: 98a9e64476079e5b86d7532f98f53acf7555327cd46b3118619246a5d12ec8f9 Homepage: https://containerd.io Description-en: daemon to control runC Containerd is a daemon to control runC, built for performance and density. Containerd leverages runC’s advanced features such as seccomp and user namespace support as well as checkpoint and restore for cloning and live migration of containers.
This package contains the binaries.
There are three methods to install containerd 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 containerd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install containerd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install containerd
Install containerd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install containerd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install containerd
Install containerd 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 containerd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install containerd
How To Uninstall containerd on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the containerd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove containerd
Uninstall containerd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall containerd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove containerd
Remove containerd Configurations and Data
To remove containerd configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge containerd
Remove containerd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove containerd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge containerd
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install containerd package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
