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Cockpit 250

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Shell: Improve admin switcher and session menu
  • Software Updates: Introduce basic kpatch support
  • Machines: Migration of a virtual machine

CI Metrics and Error Budgets

by Martin Pitt –
category: howto
The Cockpit project literally lives and dies together with our integration tests and the CI machinery to run them. We notice this the hard way whenever there is an outage; that’s why we invested quite some efforts to run tests on at least two different clouds, and fall back to...

Cockpit 248

by Garrett LeSage –
category: release
  • Metrics: Install missing packages
  • PAM: Deprecate pam_cockpit_cert module
  • Machines: Bug fixes and improvements
  • OSTree: Bump epoch to 1
  • All: Git branches are now main

Setting up PCP and Grafana metrics with Cockpit

by Martin Pitt –
category: howto
Finding performance problems is a common troubleshooting activity. Monitoring the usage of CPU, memory, network, and other resources helps administrators to spot patterns when unusual resource usage occurs.Cockpit can help. Let’s take a look!

Starting point

Let’s start with a pristine Fedora 34 system which has at least Cockpit...

Cockpit 245

by Allison Karlitskaya –
category: release
  • Metrics: New PCP configuration dialog
  • Storage: Show both SHA256 and SHA1 Tang fingerprints
  • Release: No more cockpit-cache tarball
  • cockpit-podman: Added Korean translation

Testing all the pixels

by Marius Vollmer –
category: tutorial
The Cockpit integration tests can now contain “pixel tests”. Such a test will take a screenshot with the browser and compare it with a reference. The idea is that we can catch visual regressions much easier this way than if we would hunt for them in a purely manual fashion....

Unified upstream and downstream testing with tmt and Packit

by Martin Pitt –
category: howto
Automated package update gating can tremendously increase the quality of a Linux distribution. (Gated packages are only accepted into a distribution when tests pass.)Two and a half years ago, we started to gate the Fedora cockpit package on our browser integration tests. We have continued to increase the number of...

Cockpit 241

by skobyda –
category: release
  • Kdump: Beautification and alignment fixes
  • Start of TLS certificate improvements