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Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by ikidd »

xrd wrote: post #108
the_real_cher wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use proxmox. I only use it for a home lab but it's pretty good and all I use are lxc containers.

Am I wrong that proxmox takes over the entire machine? I like cockpit because I can use the machine as a regular Linux machine. It happens to have some containers and VMs running in a very ad hoc way. It wasn't the plan to use it for hosting originally but now it is. And cockpit can be configured to use other machines as well, right? So it makes it easy to grow into a quick way to review all the machines without me p…

Proxmox is just KVM/qemu with management modules running on Debian. I set up Plasma on a node for a while and used it for a workstation for a couple years, and it worked fine.

Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by mbreese »

rrvsh wrote: post #100
xrd wrote: post #54

I have used cockpit and like it. It allows me to quickly see the entirety of my system. But, it doesn't offer any way to review my incus containers. So, I tried wolfstack, which was recently listed on HN. It appears it only supports lxc. I'm surprised, isn't lxc and incus more or less 1:1 synonymous (unless you get into recent more complexities)? I'm feeling like it is hard to find a simple GUI to just review a syste…

I've never used proxmox, but I've heard good things. Personally (and this is a bit crazy) the best bar none interface for containers I've used is the OpenMediaVault compose plugin - it's a NAS distro but I literally ran it on all my servers for years because of the UI

TrueNAS is also a NAS distribution and it has pretty good support for containers and VMs, so I’m not that surprised. They generally expect to be individual all-in-one type of servers.

Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by swq115 »

I run a small homelab (Mac Mini + RPi5) and tried Cockpit too. Great for single server monitoring, but once I had multiple nodes, I kept SSH-ing into each box anyway.

Ended up wanting something CLI-first that could check all servers at once without opening a browser. The web UI is nice for a quick glance though.

Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by moondev »

xrd wrote: post #54

I have used cockpit and like it. It allows me to quickly see the entirety of my system. But, it doesn't offer any way to review my incus containers. So, I tried wolfstack, which was recently listed on HN. It appears it only supports lxc. I'm surprised, isn't lxc and incus more or less 1:1 synonymous (unless you get into recent more complexities)? I'm feeling like it is hard to find a simple GUI to just review a syste…

> I'm feeling like it is hard to find a simple GUI to just review a system and manage a bunch of containers and VMs.

Incus does all three through the same web ui

* OCI compatible "app" containers - with support for registries like docker.io and ghcr.io

* LXC "system" containers

* virtual machines with qemu + kvm

Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by chucklenorris »

bookwar wrote: post #62
xrd wrote: post #54

I have used cockpit and like it. It allows me to quickly see the entirety of my system. But, it doesn't offer any way to review my incus containers. So, I tried wolfstack, which was recently listed on HN. It appears it only supports lxc. I'm surprised, isn't lxc and incus more or less 1:1 synonymous (unless you get into recent more complexities)? I'm feeling like it is hard to find a simple GUI to just review a syste…

We do have a cockpit-podman plugin and have added recently some features to simplify management of podman quadlets. (podman quadlets is like a systemd-friendly version of docker compose, which is a good fit for a single server use case) So if you get onboard with podman, you may get some benefits from the Cockpit UI for it. But you are right, there are many different container technologies and we haven't catched up w…

I recently moved from a docker-compose setup with portainer as a manager to podman+quadlets+cockpit . After the initial pain of migration i'm really happy! I can also manage VMs, volumes, and check systemd logs so it's a good all-in-one solution for managing standalone servers. Also i think it uses systemd activation so it's really light on resources. For someone who dislikes the proxmox approach of custom kernel/os this is a good alternative.

Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

thomond wrote: post #65
tryauuum wrote: post #24

I had a bad experience with it. We hired a contractor and he 1. insisted on a pre-war version of ubuntu 2. insisted on the cockpit. So you no longer can modify the NFS exports over ssh, you need to connect to this HTTP abomination. Very nice. Always wanted to open more ports on my servers

> 1. insisted on a pre-war version of ubuntu Which war?

Presumably the Snap War.
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