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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…
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.
These all sound like tasks a real sysadmin wouldn't attempt. File browser on a server? Use mv and you can move as many files as you want, sure you'd need a keyboard but I don't see how I would do it with mouse only. Right-click and select multiple? I don't know but it's not a feature I'd even thought of. Cockpit is great to get a quick glance at the state of servers, but for actual work the terminal is more convenien…
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?
All the supported login methods are in here: https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/authentication
In the guide https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/ I don't find anything about managing containers
Question from a Cockpit PO: if you were to choose one feature to add to the project what that feature would be?
2. Make it work on Ubuntu seamlessly
(eg. fix these kind of issues - https://cockpit-project.org/faq.html#error-message-about-bei...)
3. Have it work behind a web server way more easily. This should be a straightforward configuration option error installing.
(https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/Proxying-Coc...)
Reminds me of cpanel, from the late 1900s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPanel
I used Webmin[0] back in the day, I wonder how more recent server web UIs like Cockpit stack up. [0] https://webmin.com/
It's neutered and not as full featured, but not bad in a pinch. All of these web admin tools are hacks that call out to shell scripts and whatnot. It requires a lot of conditional behavior and/or vertical integration. "Linux" has no consistent API for control, so its all duct tape. Webmin is the same, tbh (swap perl for whatever cockpit is written in) 45Drives uses cockpit as the UI layer of their "Houston" operating…
I love the smell of RCEs in the morning.