Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cadvisor on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is cadvisor
cadvisor is:
cAdvisor (Container Advisor) provides container users an understanding of
the resource usage and performance characteristics of their running
containers.
cAdvisor has native support for Docker containers and should support just
about any other container type out of the box.
cAdvisor also exposes container stats as Prometheus (http://prometheus.io)
metrics.
This package provides daemon that collects, aggregates, processes, and
exports information about running containers. Specifically, for each
container it keeps resource isolation parameters, historical resource
usage, histograms of complete historical resource usage and network
statistics. This data is exported by container and machine-wide.
There are three methods to install cadvisor on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cadvisor Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cadvisor using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cadvisor
Install cadvisor Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cadvisor using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cadvisor
Install cadvisor 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 cadvisor using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cadvisor
How To Uninstall cadvisor on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the cadvisor package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cadvisor
Uninstall cadvisor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cadvisor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cadvisor
Remove cadvisor Configurations and Data
To remove cadvisor configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cadvisor
Remove cadvisor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cadvisor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cadvisor
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cadvisor package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
