Installing Doozerd on Ubuntu Server Latest

Doozerd is a highly available, consistent and fault-tolerant key-value store. In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to install Doozerd on Ubuntu server latest version.

Prerequisites

Steps

  1. Log in to your Ubuntu server as a user with administrative privileges.

  2. Update your package list by running the command:

    sudo apt update
    
  3. Before you proceed with the installation of Doozerd, install the prerequisite packages. Run the following command:

    sudo apt install build-essential autoconf automake libtool git make gcc pkg-config
    
  4. Clone the Doozerd repository from GitHub by running the command:

    git clone https://github.com/ha/doozerd.git
    
  5. Change the directory to the cloned repository:

    cd doozerd
    
  6. Run the autoconf command to build the configuration files:

    autoreconf -i
    
  7. Run the configure script:

    ./configure
    
  8. Run the make command:

    make
    
  9. Install Doozerd using make:

    make install
    
  10. Start the Doozerd server with the following command:

    doozerd
    
  11. If you want to configure Doozerd to run at startup, create a new systemd file for it using the following command:

    sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/doozerd.service
    
  12. Paste the following configuration:

    [Unit]
    Description=Doozerd Key-Value Store
    After=network.target
    
    [Service]
    User=root
    ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/doozerd
    Restart=on-failure
    RestartSec=10
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target
    
  13. Save and close the file.

  14. Start the Doozerd service:

sudo systemctl start doozerd
  1. Check the status of the Doozerd service:
sudo systemctl status doozerd

If the service is active and running, you have successfully installed Doozerd.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Doozerd, a fault-tolerant and highly available key-value store, on Ubuntu server latest version using the command line. You can now start using Doozerd for your applications.

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