How To Install ganeti-confd on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install ganeti

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install ganeti

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is ganeti-confd and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install ganeti-confd on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install ganeti-confd on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install ganeti-confd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ganeti

Install ganeti-confd on CentOS 8 using yum

Because ganeti-confd is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install ganeti-confd package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ganeti

How to upgrade (update) a single package ganeti-confd using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like ganeti-confd in this example you should use the following command:

yum update ganeti

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade ganeti

How to Upgrade ganeti-confd on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update ganeti

How To remove ganeti-confd from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the ganeti-confd package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove ganeti

Extra info and code examples

Ganeti is a virtual server cluster management tool built on top of the Xen and KVM virtualization technologies and other free software. It provides an automated environment to manage highly available virtual machine instances. It is designed to facilitate cluster management of virtual servers using commodity hardware, and to provide fast and simple recovery after physical failures. It can take care of operations such as redundant disk creation and management, operating system installation (in cooperation with OS-specific install scripts), startup, shutdown, and failover of instances between physical systems. This package installs the complete Ganeti system.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install ganeti-confd using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the ganeti-confd from CentOS 8.

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