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

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Question from a Cockpit PO: if you were to choose one feature to add to the project what that feature would be?

I would love to resize drives/partitions on Linux machines without it feeling like open heart surgery, in a place I already have handy for generally poking around those machines.

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

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I have a handful of unique pet Linux machines at home and at work. The number one reason I love Cockpit is because I probably don't even remember which distro which is using, so it's really nice to have a common place I can establish a baseline when I know a given one of my machines is sad.

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

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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.

Hey that’s pretty cool, nice to see someone paying attention to Docker Swarm (it’s nice for simple deployments, like multi-server Compose). You might want to add some screenshots to the docs though. There was also Swarmpit but it didn’t really get that much love, sadly: https://github.com/swarmpit/swarmpit/issues/719 Portainer is pretty nice feature wise but even with lowered MTU I still get odd networking related is…

Yeah, I was a long time Swarmpit user, but as you said it’s abandoned, has lots of unfixed bugs, and is pretty heavy. So I set out to build something light on Go to replace it.

I love swarm! If only it wasn’t the unloved step child…

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

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If 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! I’m using cockpit on my home assistant box and I wasn’t even sure this is the same project since I log in with muscle memory.

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

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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.

Yes. One image won’t kill you. Or just refer an external static image.

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

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post #9

I 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…

A webui for creating vms is certainly convenient if you’re doing it once a year like me.

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

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One of my favorite interview questions: "Here are some SSH credentials. What does this system do?" Sometimes there aren't any docs. Sometimes the docs are wrong. It's important to be able to establish what the actual running situation is.

When I was interviewing people on behalf of a client, I was surprised at the number of people who didn't even know what SSH was. This was for a mid-level software developer and not a junior and they all came with glowing resumes. They all insisted that it was essential to have a CI/CD process but didn't even know what the "CD" part even did. Apparently you just "git push" and the code magically gets on the server. Th…

You’ve listed a whole gamut of reasons why having the process is essential, so they weren’t wrong ;)

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

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post #125

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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.

How large are a couple of 1080p PNG screenshots? 0.5MiB?
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