Cockpit Introduction: Headless Server Management for Linux
In this video I introduce Cockpit, which is a server management tool available on many popular Linux distributions.
https://cockpit-project.org/
Install Cockpit (if it's not already installed):
sudo dnf install cockpit
Enable Cockpit:
sudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket
Cockpit additions / applications:
Podman containers - RHEL Docker analog. Can pull images and run containers. (already installed on RHEL Cockpit version)
To see which other Cockpit applications are available, use the command:
sudo dnf search cockpit-*
Some additional Cockpit applications/additions below:
Virtual Machine Manager - create, monitor, and manage VMs
sudo dnf install cockpit-machines
Session Recording - record SSH sessions for playback afterwards
sudo dnf install cockpit-session-recording
Cockpit Composer - Linux image builder
sudo dnf install cockpit-composer
Cockpit Dashboard - older 'dashboard' (but you can see all your connected machines in one graph)
sudo dnf install cockpit-dashboard
Cockpit Doc - Cockpit Deployment and Developer Guide
sudo dnf install cockpit-doc
Cockpit pcp - Performance Co-Pilot framework to gather metrics about the system.
sudo dnf install cockpit-pcp
Once desired packages are installed, restart cockpit (and re-login)
sudo systemctl restart cockpit