How To Install cephadm on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cephadm on Ubuntu.
What is cephadm
cephadm is:
Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage.
The cephadm utility is used to bootstrap a Ceph cluster and to manage ceph daemons deployed with systemd and containers.
There are three methods to install cephadm on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cephadm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cephadm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cephadm
Install cephadm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cephadm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cephadm
Install cephadm 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 cephadm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cephadm
How To Uninstall cephadm on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the cephadm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cephadm
Uninstall cephadm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cephadm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cephadm
Remove cephadm Configurations and Data
To remove cephadm configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cephadm
Remove cephadm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cephadm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cephadm
Dependencies
cephadm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cephadm package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.