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Scale Cockpit troubleshooting to your computing fleet

by Martin Pitt –
category: announcement
You might know Cockpit as a troubleshooting tool for individual machines. But once you discover and test a solution, wouldn’t it be nice to apply it to all your other machines in your data center?Of course, not every problem works this way. You wouldn’t extend LVM with a new hard...

Creating Plugins for the Cockpit User Interface

by Stef Walter –
category: tutorial
Note: This post was updated in Aug 2022 to adjust to reflect Cockpit UI and development best practices.Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers. You can easily add your own custom pages to the navigation.For this tutorial you need to install your distribution’s cockpit packages or build it from...

Cockpit 218

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Services: Improved accessibility and mobile support
  • Overview: Add uptime information
  • Disable idle timeout by default
  • Support building without polkit

Cockpit 210 and Cockpit-podman 12

by Katerina Koukiou –
category: release
  • Overview: Add CPU utilization to usage card
  • Dashboard: Support SSH identity unlocking when adding new machines
  • SElinux: Introduce an Ansible automation script
  • Machines: Support “bridge” type network interfaces
  • Machines: Support bus type disk configuration
  • Podman: Configure CPU share for system containers
  • Source
  • Fedora 30
  • Fedora 31

Cockpit 209

by Marius Vollmer –
category: release
  • A new design for the Overview page
  • Session timeouts
  • Support for banners on the login page
  • Support for TLS client certificate authentication
  • Support for Fedora CoreOS
  • List cockpit logins in wtmp/utmp
  • Dropped support for the pam_rhost module