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Seamless single-sign-on

by Marius Vollmer –
category: blog

Beyond a “single pane of glass”

Organizations who use several machines often run management display software in an attempt to integrate all infrastructure. ManageIQ and Foreman are great examples of this kind of software.Managing machines from the outside is usually adequate, but sometimes it’s best to log into the...

Cockpit 166

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Kubernetes: Add creation of Virtual Machines
  • Realms: Automatically set up Kerberos keytab for Cockpit web server
  • Numbers now get formatted correctly for the selected language

Make your Cockpit page easily installable

by Marius Vollmer –
category: tutorial
Since version 152, Cockpit can discover and install packages that addpages to Cockpit. We call them “Applications” and as of now, only twoof them exist: We have Fleet Commander and Cockpit’s own DiagnosticReports in Fedora. You might have seen them on the Applications page:If you want your own page to...

Cockpit 165

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Storage: Show more details of sessions and services that keep NFS busy
  • Machines: Detect if libvirtd is not running
  • Machines: Show virtual machines that are being created

Using Cockpit test VMs with your own test framework

by Martin Pitt –
category: tutorial
The Cockpit Starter Kit provides the scaffolding for your own Cockpitextensions: a simple page (in React), build system (webpack, babel, eslint, etc.), and an integration test usingCockpit’s own Python test API on top of theChromium DevTools Protocol. See the recentintroduction for details.But in some cases you want to use a...

Cockpit 164

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Storage: Usability improvements
  • System: Show available package updates and missing registration
  • System: Fix inconsistent tooltips
  • Logs: Change severities
  • Machines: Add error notifications
  • Accessibility improvements
  • Reloading the page in the browser now reloads Cockpit package manifests

Cockpit 163

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Hide Docker storage pool reset button when it cannot work properly
  • Drop “Transfer data asynchronously” VDO option on Storage page
  • Update jQuery to version 3.3.1

Cockpit 162

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Show pod name and disks of VMs running in Kubernetes
  • Tighten up the default Content-Security-Policy
  • Drop cockpit-subscriptions and cockpit-integration-tests on Fedora

Cockpit 161

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • New VMs can be created on Machines page
  • VMs running in Kubernetes can now be deleted
  • Improve LVM volume resizing
  • Add new Hardware Information page
  • Rename cockpit-ovirt package to cockpit-machines-ovirt
  • Stop advertising and supporting cockpit-bundled jQuery library