Running Cockpit — Cockpit Project

If you already have Cockpit on your server, point your web browser to: https://ip-address-of-machine:9090

Use your system user account and password to log in. See the guide for more info.

Stable, tested, and included in

Cockpit comes installed by default in Fedora Server.

To install Cockpit on other variants of Fedora use the following commands. For the latest versions use COPR.

Install cockpit:
```
sudo dnf install cockpit
```

Enable cockpit:

sudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

Open the firewall if necessary:

sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit --permanent

Cockpit is included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras repository in versions 7.1 and later:

Enable the Extras repository:

sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-extras-rpms

Install cockpit:
```
sudo yum install cockpit
```

Enable cockpit:

sudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

Open the firewall if necessary:

sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit --permanent

Connect to an Atomic Host from another instance of Cockpit with the Add Server dashboard UI.

Alternatively you can access Cockpit directly on the Atomic Host if SSH password authentication is enabled:

Run the Cockpit web service container:

sudo atomic install cockpit/ws
sudo atomic run cockpit/ws

Cockpit is included in CentOS 7.x:

Install cockpit:
```
sudo yum install cockpit
```

Enable cockpit:

sudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

Open the firewall if necessary:

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=cockpit
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Cockpit is included in Debian unstable and in backports for Debian 8 (Jessie) and 9 (Stretch).

For Debian 9 you have to enable the backports repository:

echo 'deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main' > \
 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
apt-get update

For Debian 8 you have to enable the backports-sloppy repository:

echo 'deb http://deb.debian.org/debian jessie-backports-sloppy main' > \
 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
apt-get update

Install the package:
```
sudo apt-get install cockpit
```

Cockpit is included in Ubuntu 17.04 and later, and available as an official backport for 16.04 LTS and later. Backports are enabled by default, but if you customized apt sources you might need to enable them manually.

Install the package:

sudo apt-get install cockpit

Less tested and irregularly updated

Cockpit can be found in the Arch User Repository as package cockpit.

Cockpit is in Clear Linux OS and can be installed using swupd:

sudo swupd bundle-add sysadmin-remote
sudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

Minimum client browser versions

Mozilla Firefox 11+
Google Chrome 16+
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
Apple iOS Safari 6.1+
Opera 21.1+