Cockpit releases every week. This week it was 0.78

Cockpit releases every week. This week it was 0.77

Note: This post has been updated for changes in Cockpit 0.90 and later.

Cockpit is a user interface for servers. In earlier tutorials there’s a guide on how to add components to Cockpit.

Not all of the system APIs use DBus. So sometimes we find ourselves in a …

Cockpit is an interactive server admin interface. For those helping contribute to Cockpit, these ideals help us remember what we’re trying to accomplish. For others, this page should answer the question: “Why Cockpit?”

These ideals are not a commentary about what is “right” and “wrong” in software in general …

Note: This post has been updated for changes in Cockpit 0.48 and later.

A Linux system today has a lot of local system configuration APIs. I’m not talking about library APIs here, but things like DBus services, command/scripts to be executed, or files placed in various locations …

If you’ve tried out the RHEL Atomic Host Beta you might notice that Cockpit is not included by default, like it is in the Fedora Atomic or CentOS Atomic. But there’s an easy work around:

$ sudo docker run --privileged -v /:/host -d stefwalter/cockpit-atomic:wip

This is an …

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 …

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 0.11 now has an all new simple Networking UI. Still some work to do, but it’s coming together. You can see it here: