No keactrl on Debian

[mihalski]

keactrl does not exist on a Debian system thus kea-anterius cannot be started.

[vrisk]

Thank you for pointing this out. Did you/will you open an issue with the Debian packager?

[abma]

in current debian unstable a package exists: https://packages.debian.org/sid/kea-ctrl-agent

[xjuric29]

There are two ways how to resolve it. You can download the last version from isc directly and build it yourself or install packages from sid. I chose the second way but there are some problems with installation scripts (missing add group for kea) and systemd services are not written good.

[vrisk]

We do also have some experimental packages from ISC ready - only for the Kea 1.6beta. These are made by the Kea team, so they will be supported by ISC. https://cloudsmith.io/~isc/repos/kea-1-6/packages/

[informatik-bks]

I tried it a few times with the Debian packages from Debian but no luck, what I can say it works when you compile KEA and Build Anterius from Scratch on Debian

[tomaszmrugalski]

Somewhat related to this issue - Stork, our new dashboard project does not require keactrl. It doesn't have the capability to restart Kea servers (yet), but on the flip side you can deploy it much easier, because the code is packaged in DEB and RPM packages and don't need to worry about keactrl.

Long term, Stork is also a much better choice, because there's a team of dedicated professionals behind it and Anterius - as impressive as it was - was a result of a 3 months long work of a single student that now moved on to other things.