Note: This post has been updated for changes in Cockpit 0.90 and later.
Cockpit is a user interface for servers. And you can add stuff to that user interface. Cockpit is internally built of various components. Each component is HTML, with Javascript logic that makes it work, and CSS …
Note: This post has been updated for changes in Cockpit 0.90 and later.
Cockpit is a user interface for servers. As we covered in the last tutorial you can add user interface component to Cockpit, and build your own parts of the Server UI.
Much of Cockpit interacts with …
Andreas and Marius have been working on implementing a new multi-server dash board for Cockpit. It’s really looking great.
The goal here is that the dash board should work with either one server or several, and give you an overview of what’s going on. Problems that require attention …
D-Bus is powerful IPC Cockpit is heavily built around DBus. We send DBus over our WebSocket transport, and marshal them in JSON.
DBus is powerful, with lots of capabilities. Not all projects use all of these, but so many of these capabilities are what allow Cockpit to implement its UI …
Cockpit 0.12 now has support for pulling Docker images from the Docker registry.
Unfortunately Docker doesn’t have support for cancelling the pull of an image. So that sort of hampers the UI a bit. At least for now.
Cockpit 0.11 now has an all new simple Networking UI. Still some work to do, but it’s coming together. You can see it here:
Here’s a short video showing how Cockpit manages Docker containers. Cockpit is in RHEL branding here, but it’s basically the same thing as you get from cockpit-project.org
This UI is going to be refined somewhat, but it’s nice to see things coming together.
Gave a talk at DevConf in Brno about the project a bunch of us have been working on: Cockpit. It’s a UI for Linux Servers. Currently in the prototype stage…
Hopefully there’ll be a video of the talk available soon. You can try out the Cockpit prototype in …
