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Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

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Re: Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

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Post by candiddevmike »

Friends don't let friends configure linux from a web UI. It's messy, built off of assumptions, and is ripe for exploitation. Plus, if all you ever use is a web UI, how are you supposed to troubleshoot or fix the machine when said web UI stops working?

If you're looking for pretty, single host, read-only monitoring dashboards though, checkout Netdata: https://www.netdata.cloud/

Re: Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

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Post by farisjarrah »

rudasn wrote: post #2

Anybody uses this in production? Is it good/suitable for managing servers (bare metal) behind VPN?

I haven't used this in production as something like this gets a bit out of hand once you need to manage more then like 5 machines. However, for home setups or a very small office, this works great. I've used it on and off for years for my home servers. Its really nice to just be able to restart a service without having to whip out a ssh client, just log into a webpage on your phone and you can fully manage your server.

Re: Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

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Post by Finnucane »

I've been using cockpit and cockpit-machine at home to manage a Windows VM I need for work stuff. It works pretty well except I wish there was better documentation for configuration; I haven't yet got the VM to recognize that I have a 4k monitor.

Re: Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

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Post by codetrotter »

java-man wrote: post #3

Would anyone be interested in a desktop application with similar functionality, accessing [multiple] hosts via SSH?

Depends. Open source or proprietary? Actually desktop or just electron? Are you going to maintain it? What use cases would it be intended for? Would the client software be available for macOS? Which GUI framework(s) would you be using?

Re: Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

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Post by blackrock »

candiddevmike wrote: post #4

Friends don't let friends configure linux from a web UI. It's messy, built off of assumptions, and is ripe for exploitation. Plus, if all you ever use is a web UI, how are you supposed to troubleshoot or fix the machine when said web UI stops working? If you're looking for pretty, single host, read-only monitoring dashboards though, checkout Netdata: https://www.netdata.cloud/

I would say it’s easier to just fix your web UI. And if that fails then revert to SSH and the command line.

Webmin is pretty useful.

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