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I've used Cockpit and quite like it. Very clean way to get the full picture of the system. However, I was wondering if there was any way to login using an SSH key rather than a password? I could of course pipe it via SSH. But is there any way we can authenticate using SSH on the web? Maybe someone here can help?
PSA: The file browser plugin can't move files (you need to copy, paste, and go back and delete the original file). You can't select multiple files without a keyboard. You can't upload multiple files at the same time. Mobile screen has lots of usability issues, specially with long paths or filenames.
Cockpit is great to get a quick glance at the state of servers, but for actual work the terminal is more convenient. Appreciate it for what it is and don't expect a full desktop environment to be included.
Cockpit could actually get away with being a decent NAS interface. You can config storage, you can run VMs, containers from it. What else do you need?
Cockpit could actually get away with being a decent NAS interface. You can config storage, you can run VMs, containers from it. What else do you need?
Why not go for TrueNAS? Much more solid UI
I'm not saying one is better than the other, just that there is now finally an appeal in Cockpit to be used as a NAS. I've been following its development for almost 10 years.
Question from a Cockpit PO: if you were to choose one feature to add to the project what that feature would be?
Question from a Cockpit PO: if you were to choose one feature to add to the project what that feature would be?
I've found that Cockpit Machines is really unreliable on Debian and it's nothing really to do with Cockpit - it's things like dbus settings that break Cockpit.
eg, having to add this to make it reliable on my Debian Trixie install:
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Cockpit 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
It hooks into libvirt for this, so I can also manage them via virsh et al, but it's a nice tool to set up the essentials of a VM and provide remote access to the VM console.
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
Edit: so, this is the incus-ui-canonical package? It feels a bit ironic that canonical ships this, because I thought the whole point of incus was to avoid canonical and the direction they were taking lxd.
Thank you for this, I'll check it out.
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Curious if you have tried IncusOS or if you are just using Incus on linux? I'm doing the latter and have been considering moving to IncusOS.
> IncusOS or if you are just using Incus on linux I get what you mean, but IncusOS is running linux.