the opinion you didn't ask for: avoid admin UIs... at best they make you lazy, at worst a security nightmare
Technology is here to make us lazy
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
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Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#122I tried using this to handle my 10-ish Docker containers, but I ended up using Portainer. Sure, not the same thing, but if someone (like me) thought Cockpit might be nice for managing a small Docker host, this didn't work for me
Going for a shameless plug - I am working on an observability dashboard for Docker Swarm: https://github.com/Radiergummi/cetacean Also works for a single node cluster. Maybe that’s closer to what you’re looking for.
Thanks for this, going to check it out now
Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#123Cockpit is rudimentary and hardly worth the time. And as far as I can tell, there's very little interest in expanding it from the broader community, as the lack of plugins would seem to indicate. It doesn't have a patch on Webmin, sadly.
Agreed, I'd like to hear what actual tasks people are doing with it
Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#124Reminds me of cpanel, from the late 1900s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPanel
Came here to say this too.
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#125Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#126cPanel reborn
Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#127I 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?
February 2022 war
Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is fine and all but repos with such sparse README's are not doing themselves any favors.
Including images in a readme means committing (maybe large) binary files to the repo.
They could commit thumbnails linking to originals hosted on their website.
Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Including images in a readme means committing (maybe large) binary files to the repo.
They could commit thumbnails linking to originals hosted on their website.
Thumbnails are not even needed - they can just use a plain old img tag in the readme with an external src.
Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
#130If you have a git repo for anything that's supposed to be an interface to anything, please put one screenshot at the top of your readme. I get that the website has these, but its the best way to let me know more about your product in one shot.
Agreed. With a multi tab/page interface system like this, it would be nice to see a slideshow of different useful pages and nice data vis metrics.
As an aside, GitHub made a change a while back where videos and gifs don't auto play without the user clicking play first. Boo.