DragonFly is a lightweight virtual machine designed to host containers on a single host. It is developed and maintained by corecode on GitHub. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps of installing DragonFly on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before we start, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
To install DragonFly, we need to first install some required packages. Open a terminal window and update the system by running the following command:
sudo zypper update
Once the system is updated, run the following command to install the required packages:
sudo zypper install git-core make gcc automake autoconf libtool
After installing the required packages, you can proceed to download DragonFly. Change to your preferred installation directory and clone the repository by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/corecode/dma.git
After the repository has been cloned, navigate into the newly created directory by running the following command:
cd dma
Now that we have downloaded DragonFly, the next step is to install it. Run the following commands to compile and install DragonFly:
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
After DragonFly has been successfully compiled and installed, you should see the following message:
DragonFly was successfully installed.
To verify that DragonFly has been successfully installed, run the following command:
sudo dma version
If DragonFly has been installed correctly, you should see the following outputs:
DMA Version: 1.4.0
Build Date: Oct 20 2021 12:00:00
Congratulations! You have successfully installed DragonFly on OpenSUSE Latest.
In this tutorial, we covered the steps involved in installing DragonFly on OpenSUSE Latest. We explained the prerequisites, downloaded and installed DragonFly, and verified the installation. We hope this tutorial was helpful to you, and you can now start using DragonFly for container deployment.
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