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

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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

What you're looking for is Dokploy. It's much better than it's predecessors like Dokku, CapRover, etc.

I was heavily impressed with CapRover 5 years ago, so if you’re right, it’s worth checking this out.

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

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Part of the technical assessment I have for hiring new platform engineers involves troubleshooting a service hosted in a headless Linux vm. Troubleshooting and fluency on the command line are among what I consider core skills. Being able to dig through abstraction layers is not just essential for when things go wrong, they are essential for building infrastructure, and really tells you whether an architecture is fit…

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.

  # ip a
  # ss -tulpn
  # ps aux
  # df -h
  # apt install lnav
  # journalctl -f | lnav
I'd probably ask you what would you like it to do (risking pissing you off) and then get on with trying to work out what is going on in the box.

Mind you, my job title is MD, so I get that luxury.

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

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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…

I use proxmox. I only use it for a home lab but it's pretty good and all I use are lxc containers.

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

#97
post #30

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…

Part of the technical assessment I have for hiring new platform engineers involves troubleshooting a service hosted in a headless Linux vm. Troubleshooting and fluency on the command line are among what I consider core skills. Being able to dig through abstraction layers is not just essential for when things go wrong, they are essential for building infrastructure, and really tells you whether an architecture is fit…

From a professional perspective, this is a solid question. And yeah, between the basic tool suite (top/cd/ls -l/df -H/grep/pipe '|'/ssh) and some common sysadmin/engie knowledge, I could get by with Linux just fine. "Just fine" doesn't cut it for troubleshooting sludgepipes and Kubernetes though, and my skills with Powershell finally gave me the confidence boost to take CLI/TUI seriously on Linux.

And man, zero regrets. It's nice having an OS not fight me tooth and nail to do shit, even if it means letting me blow my feet off with some commands (which is why, to any junior readers out there, we always start with a snapshot when troubleshooting servers).

Now to finish my mono-compose for my homelab and get back to enjoying the fruits of my labor...

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

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For the longest time I wanted to automated things with ansible. But it was a massive paint to plan/create new playbooks to manage servers and services. But now with Claude Code and other AI agents the ground has shifted. I have created a git repo that contains all my infra information minus credentials. Claude uses it to manage my infra using tools like terraform/tofu and Ansible. I also review the changes before they are pushed. And it is exceptionally good at debugging issues. If something breaks or starts acting weird I asked Claude to take a look and it can get to the bottom of it far quicker than me pocking around. Particularly when I get a call when I was sleeping.

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

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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…

I've never used proxmox, but I've heard good things. Personally (and this is a bit crazy) the best bar none interface for containers I've used is the OpenMediaVault compose plugin - it's a NAS distro but I literally ran it on all my servers for years because of the UI
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