How to install consul on Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)?
In this article we are going to learn the commands and steps to install consul package on Ubuntu 16.10.
Quick installation of consul:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: consul
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install consul
Package Details | |
| Package: | consul |
| Version: | 0.6.4~dfsg-3 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | https://github.com/hashicorp/consul |
| Description: | tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable. . Consul provides several key features: . - Service Discovery - Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well. . - Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service level circuit breakers. . - Key/Value Storage - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere. . - Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support any number of regions without complex configuration. . Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is recommended to run the Consul servers only on Linux, however. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 16.10 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/devel |
How to install consul on Ubuntu 16.10?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 16.10 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If consul is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L consul' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L consul dpkg-query: package 'consul' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing consul:
After system update use the following command to install consul:
sudo apt-get install consul
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 16.10 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove consul from Ubuntu 16.10?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the consul from Ubuntu 16.10. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the consul following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove consul
Following command is used to remove the consul package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove consul
This will remove consul and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing consul with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge consul
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove consul
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with consul package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.