Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
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Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#2I've used this before in the early days of my Linux SysAdmin work, especially in the homelab.
It's pretty solid, but the limited amount of projects and lack of visibility into the CLI it uses on the backend hinder the ability to translate sysadmin work into tangible Linux skills, so I dumped it at home in favor of straight SSH sessions and some TUI stuff.
That said, if I gotta babysit Linux in an Enterprise without something like Centrify? Yeah, Cockpit is a solid, user-friendly abstraction layer, especially for WinFolks.
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#3Cockpit is great! My NAS (built on a weird “N17” AMD 7840HS laptop processor put into a desktop “server”mITX motherboard by those wizards in China) stuck in a Jonsbo N2 with 5x4TB Samsung 870 evos in ZFS raidz1 is entirely managed by it
I keep meaning to look into making plugins for it, but honestly I’ve barely needed to. Cockpit, the 45drives ZFS plugin fork, and the web terminal have been more than enough for me
Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#4Interesting. This looks nice. Made me think of webmin which I used... years ago.
Went to look and webmin's changed. Pretty crazy.
Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#5I used Cockpit for years after I started having issues with my network card in FreeNAS. It's generally very good, though I never really figured out how to graphically swap out a hard disk in a RAID without trashing the data (which happened once).
I suspect that was user error on my end, so if you want a more-or-less no-nonsense way to manager a server, it's certainly worth checking out.
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#6Does this work well with fleets? I remember looking at this early on it seemed fairly single-server focused.
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#7Interesting. This looks nice. Made me think of webmin which I used... years ago. Went to look and webmin's changed. Pretty crazy.
i used to set up webmin for the linux challenged admins so they could do basic tasks. it was nice because you could lock them to specific functions in certain modules and make it difficult for them to break things
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#8I tried this out about 2 months ago when setting up a new server. I wanted something simpler and less resource heavy as webmin but it was just too simple. Adding questionable, half baked add-ons to get various functions to work just didn't give me the flexibility of webmin.
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#9I installed the latest Fedora Server on my Framework Desktop and noticed that Cockpit was enabled automatically. Overall impression is that its pretty good for getting a quick overview of things and you can certainly do _some_ administration with it, but you run into its limitations pretty fast trying to get any serious work done with it.
It's probably great for those who are new to Linux and want that NAS-like admin web UI to get the basics set up as a stepping-stone before launching deep into the command line.
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#10It is very nice. I hope more apps and options are added as it makes very simple to do some admin tasks.
Want to manage services? No problem, it is very easy. Clear failed and disable? Easy.
Want to see some disks and do admin operations on disks? It does.
Want a simple system monitor? It tracks cpu, ram and more in a pretty interface.
RHEL is dropping old interfaces like cluster management and starting to use Cockpit only.
I just wish Cockpit would replace Hawk2 for cluster management as it is better then the old deprecated cluster manager web interface.
But yes, install Cockpit or keep it installed ready to be use cause one day it saves the day...