This guide describes the installation and uninstallation process of Ignite.
Ignite runs on any Intel-based linux/amd64 system with KVM support.
AMD support is in alpha (Firecracker limitation).
Note: You do not need to install any "traditional" QEMU/KVM packages, as long as there is virtualization support in the processor and kernel it works.
See dependencies.md for needed dependencies.
Ignite is a currently a single binary application. To install it,
download the binary from the GitHub releases page,
save it as /usr/local/bin/ignite and make it executable.
To install Ignite from the command line, follow these steps:
export VERSION=v0.4.0
curl -fLo ignite https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite/releases/download/${VERSION}/ignite
chmod +x ignite
sudo mv ignite /usr/local/binIgnite uses semantic versioning, select the version to be installed
by changing the VERSION environment variable.
If the installation was successful, the ignite command should now be available:
# ignite version
Ignite version: version.Info{Major:"0", Minor:"4+", GitVersion:"v0.4.0-rc.1", GitCommit:"7e03dc80be894250f9f97ec4d80261fd2fdcd8f4", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-07-09T19:03:30Z", GoVersion:"go1.12.1", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Firecracker version: v0.17.0
Now you can continue with the Getting Started Walkthrough.
To completely remove the Ignite installation, execute the following as root:
# Force-remove all running VMs
ignite ps -q | xargs ignite rm -f
# Remove the data directory
rm -r /var/lib/firecracker
# Remove the Ignite binary
rm /usr/local/bin/ignite