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Re: Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by Celarnor » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:41 PM UTC

fazza99 wrote: post #7

what was wrong with webmin? (ducks)

Honestly what I'm thinking.

Re: Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by maeln » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:47 PM UTC

LaSombra wrote: post #3

I watched this year's Fosdem talk on Cockpit[0] and was seriously impressed. It looks like there is a contender for an easy-to-use Linux web admin. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq6Vbwl-HqM

There is also this talk from All Systems Go! [0] that goes in details about the architecture of cockpit :) .

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2017-99-cockpit_a_linux_sysadmin_s...

Re: Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by fredsted » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:48 PM UTC

LaSombra wrote: post #3

I watched this year's Fosdem talk on Cockpit[0] and was seriously impressed. It looks like there is a contender for an easy-to-use Linux web admin. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq6Vbwl-HqM

This one seems to have a bit better audio/video quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsa6BBAkTdo

Re: Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by pjmlp » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:54 PM UTC

morganvachon wrote: post #9

For those who may wonder, it looks like this is GNU/Linux only, no support for BSD or any Linux distro that doesn't use systemd . That means no Alpine Linux and no OpenBSD/FreeBSD.

Or Aix, HP-UX, SmartOS

Re: Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by maxaf » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 1:03 PM UTC

Personally I'd much rather see a GUI that can help string together snippets of Terraform/CFN and Ansible/Chef/Puppet/Salt/whathaveyou. A visual IDE for infrastructure automation, if you will.

Re: Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by jlgaddis » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 1:05 PM UTC

erric wrote: post #4

Its pretty, usable, friendly, however No one is going to use this to manage more then a few systems.

That's what Spacewalk [0] is (intended) for.

[0]: https://spacewalkproject.github.io/

Re: Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by jlgaddis » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 1:06 PM UTC

jnsaff2 wrote: post #6

erric wrote: post #4

Its pretty, usable, friendly, however No one is going to use this to manage more then a few systems.

I'm sure someone is going to manage more than a few systems, the question is whether they should. To me cockpit is firmly in the Pet sector whereas the Cattle way of doing things is clearly the one that scales better.

Not everyone has a large cattle farm.

Some folks just have a couple pets to care for.

Re: Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by dalore » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 1:11 PM UTC

Would be nice if this was in a docker container I could just run.

Re: Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by number6 » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 1:13 PM UTC

benevol wrote: post #8

How much of an added security risk does adding a web-based admin interface (to the usual ssh tunnel) represent?

SSH has a lot of neat features that mitigate MITM, Eavesdropping, Bruteforcing etc.

Where a Web-based Admin Interface should have SSL and maybe some protection against bruteforcing.

Plus, you get all the vulns that come with the modern web

Re: Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by dalore » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 1:14 PM UTC

maxaf wrote: post #15

Personally I'd much rather see a GUI that can help string together snippets of Terraform/CFN and Ansible/Chef/Puppet/Salt/whathaveyou. A visual IDE for infrastructure automation, if you will.

Doesn't Ansible Tower do this (At least for ansible)?