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

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Post by xrd »

scorpioxy wrote: post #73
xrd wrote: post #54

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…

Do you mean LXD and Incus? If so, sort of. Incus is a fork of LXD but it diverged quite a bit and due to the LXD licensing change, Incus can't take anything from LXD but LXD can from Incus. Incus is a community project and is a lot more active. They both use LXC under the hood. Finding a simple GUI is not going to be easy because everyone has a different definition of what "simple" means. It also depends on what you…

Mostly I want a quick glance at the state. I don't really do much using cockpit. It is read only for me and I'm using command line to do anything. I like that cockpit is generally mobile friendly because I can use it remotely as all my machines are on tailscale/headscale.

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

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Post by andrewstuart2 »

As a certified graybeard (just literally graying on my beard now) who now prefers the CLI, I am SO GLAD that tools like this exist. I owe probably all of my high job satisfaction and higher income to the fact that I got to play around with Linux via Ubuntu (and Compiz Fusion via CCSM) and later Webmin and other tools I eventually played around with. I learned so much without realizing I'd be using it later, though IIRC it involved much swearing and gnashing of teeth. It's crazy to think that 20 years later so much of it comes naturally. Though I'm still learning just as much (with just as much swearing at the computer usually) every day.

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

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Post by whalesalad »

xrd wrote: post #54

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…

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

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Post by whalesalad »

montroser wrote: post #67

Reminds me of cpanel, from the late 1900s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPanel

Trigger warning. This is taking me back to when I ran my own "web hosting provider" on a PIII with 128mb of ram back in the early 2000s (I was 13).

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

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Post by barchar »

whalesalad wrote: post #35
TimTheTinker wrote: post #32

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…

Cockpit tends to be less ad-hoc than others ime. Often it'll use dbus on the backend.

It's also socket activated, which is nice.

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

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Post by barchar »

Tepix wrote: post #61

I don‘t like the whole idea because it is less secure to have a web browser instead of a standard client. Think what an attacker could do if they take control of the server.

Uhhh what? If they take control of the server they have control over the box.

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

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Post by rao-v »

Gabrys1 wrote: post #18

I 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

I ended up on this journey using Dockge. Inoffensive and you can stick your compose files in a directory and manage with git vs. Portainer’s attempt to hide them.

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

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Post by devnotes77 »

stego-tech wrote: post #2

I've used this before in the early days of my Linux SysAdmin work, especially in the homelab. It's pretty solid , but the limited amount of projects and lack of visibility into the CLI it uses on the backend hinder the ability to translate sysadmin work into tangible Linux skills, so I dumped it at home in favor of straight SSH sessions and some TUI stuff. That said, if I gotta babysit Linux in an Enterprise without…

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