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Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser

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Post by 0x4542 » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 11:13 AM UTC

Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser
cockpit-project.org

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 11:51 AM UTC

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Post by LaSombra » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:01 PM UTC

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

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Post by erric » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:07 PM UTC

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

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Post by alsadi » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:18 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.

cockpit has cluster support for kubernetes

http://cockpit-project.org/guide/133/feature-kubernetes.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcfsu22RssU

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Post by jnsaff2 » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:23 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.

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.

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Post by fazza99 » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:24 PM UTC

what was wrong with webmin?

(ducks)

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Post by benevol » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:39 PM UTC

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

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Post by morganvachon » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:40 PM UTC

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.

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Post by martinald » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:40 PM UTC

fazza99 wrote: post #7

what was wrong with webmin? (ducks)

Or CPanel ;).