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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 moondev »

xrd wrote: post #159
moondev wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

This is a built in UI? How do I access that? 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.

Yes that is the package. It's just like the canonical ui for lxd, but it also supports the incus enhancements like OCI containers.

Very handy to generate yaml config for machines and viewing their console / terminal.

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

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Post by baq »

izacus wrote: post #155
bmurphy1976 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is fine and all but repos with such sparse README's are not doing themselves any favors.

The link to the homepage is literally on top of the README. You're just being a complainer for complaining sake.

my favorite kind of hn comment.

> The link to the homepage is literally on top of the README.

the 'technically correct' part

> You're just being a complainer for complaining sake.

the 'completely missing the point' part.

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

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Post by carlosjobim »

I'm a person who actually uses these graphical interfaces for servers, starting with cPanel.

I've never found any better interface than Fastpanel: https://fastpanel.direct

I'm not ashamed of shilling it. It's made managing servers and sites a pleasure instead of an exercise in teeth-grinding. Yet I never see it mentioned anywhere online when the subject comes up, even though the license is free.

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

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Post by stego-tech »

dwedge wrote: post #145
dice wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I went for a senior sysadmin interview role and they asked me to debug a website in the browser that was only visible on localhost, ssh was available. They asked me to double check that part because they assumed I just hadn't done that part, because apparently I was the first person who didn't need help with an SSH tunnel.

There’s a lot of that going around, lately. I recently had an interviewer admit I was not in the first round of candidates sent for in-person finals, but they had all bombed out on very basic SSO questions despite having a decade managing Entra; I was a “second choice” candidate and the first one to correctly answer the broad strokes of setting up an SSO app, despite not having touched Entra since it was called Azure AD.

I suspect this is AI’s doing, but cannot be sure. It’s really critical that technical interviewers weed out the over-inflaters though, now more than ever.

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

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Post by iamleppert »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #49

Would be nice if the landing page had some graphical pictures for a graphical interface...

Agreed. It's pretty trivial to add a few images to your markdown. I had to hunt for the screenshots, which are full size entire desktop grabs for what is a web app -- odd.

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

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Havoc wrote: post #166

I’ve learned to avoid these sort of webui management platforms. They seem to always follow the classic „add pro tier, need to make money“ trajectory So try to stick to cli for things that aren’t unreasonable to manage by hand (eg docker)

Another reason I've wanted to build one for a while, but no time. There used to be one that was GPL licensed that was even on Debian repos but I forget the name.
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