How to Install Designate on EndeavourOS Latest

Designate is a DNSaaS (DNS-as-a-Service) component of OpenStack. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Designate on EndeavourOS Latest.

Prerequisites

EndeavourOS Latest is installed on your system.
You have sudo access.

Step 1: Install Designate

Open a terminal and update the package list:
```
sudo pacman -Syu
```

Install Designate and its dependencies:

sudo pacman -S python-pip python2-pip python2-virtualenv python2-setuptools python2-argparse python2-dnspython python2-routes python2-paste python2-paste-deploy python2-eventlet python2-testtools python2-mock python2-sqlalchemy python2-oslo-config python2-oslo-db python2-alembic python2-oslo-log python2-oslo-policy python2-oslo-messaging python2-oslo-utils python2-oslo-i18n python2-oslo-cache python2-migrate python2-openstackclient

This command will install Designate along with its Python dependencies.

Step 2: Configure Designate

Generate the Designate configuration file:

sudo cp /etc/designate/designate.conf.sample /etc/designate/designate.conf

Edit the Designate configuration file:
```
sudo nano /etc/designate/designate.conf
```
In this file, you will need to modify the following sections:
- [DEFAULT]: Uncomment the notification_format line and set it to nova.async_periodic_task:PeriodicTasks:
```
notification_format=nova.async_periodic_task:PeriodicTasks
```
- [keystone_authtoken]: Add the following settings:
```
auth_uri = http://keystone:5000/v3
admin_user = designate
admin_password = <keystone-admin-password>
admin_tenant_name = service
```
  Replace <keystone-admin-password> with the Keystone admin password.
- [service:api]: Add the following settings:
```
auth_strategy = keystone
keystone_endpoint_type = public
keystone_region_name = RegionOne
```

Enable the Designate API service:

sudo systemctl enable designate-api.service

Start the Designate API service:

sudo systemctl start designate-api.service

Verify that the Designate API service is running:

sudo systemctl status designate-api.service

If the service is running, you should see output like the following:

● designate-api.service - OpenStack DNSaaS - API
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/designate-api.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-05-31 15:07:48 PDT; 4s ago
  Main PID: 2014 (designate-api)
     Tasks: 1 (limit: 19133)
     Memory: 27.2M
     CGroup: /system.slice/designate-api.service
             └─2014 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/designate-api --config-file /etc/designate/designate.conf

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Designate on EndeavourOS Latest. You should now have a functioning Designate instance on your system.