Administering Fedora Server with Cockpit
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A relatively new feature to Fedora Server is the Cockpit control panel. This fully integrated and "running out of the box" feature of Fedora Server is designed to make system administration of Linux individual (snowflake) systems easy and obvious and it really does, from my quick experimentation with it. This gives a standard, web-based graphical interface for RHEL, CentOS, Fedora and Arch Linux.
I am just playing with it for the first time today so getting some screenshots from Fedora 22 so that you can see how easy Linux can be, using an enterprise distro, right out of the box with no third party additions or packages.
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As you can see this is a pretty impressive tool to have all built in. It is SSL secured (so same security as SSH) right out of the gate. Logins are tied to the normal user accounts. The graphical reporting is very handy and having a terminal session just a click away is wonderful. If nothing else this is an excellent secondary access method in case SSH fails. But it also makes administration potentially very easy for people who may not be all that familiar with Linux. It is quick and easy to use and the interface is not at all confusing.
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The interface supports Docker as well but Docker is not installed on the test system that I have here, which is a development box. When I have Docker installed somewhere I will provide some shots of that as well.
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Odd this thread keeps going from working to saying not found
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That's odd. I did not rename it or edit it or anything of that nature.
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Isn't this just the same as using webmin?
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@Aaron-Studer said:
Isn't this just the same as using webmin?
To some degree, but the big difference is that this is not an add-on but part of the operating system. It is fully developed by, supported by and integrated by Red Hat. So instead of replacing the tools of the OS vendor, this is using the OS's own components.
Imagine replacing the Windows interface with one from a third party. Sure, it might work and it might be great, but it is a third party component and an unnecessary one. This one is fully integrated in and no setup is needed whatsoever. Red Hat themselves stand behind this. Using this on Ubuntu, would be weird, of course, because Red Hat doesn't integrate it there and there is no end to end vendor support.
It is still something that could be removed to lighten the system. But even in a base server install, this is included and set up by default. So this is just "part of the Fedora 22 experience."
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Always used to love Fedora, but recently moved to CentOS (seem to find better tutorials for CentOS :))
Might have to spin up a VM tomorrow and give it a try.
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@hobbit666 said:
Always used to love Fedora, but recently moved to CentOS (seem to find better tutorials for CentOS :))
Might have to spin up a VM tomorrow and give it a try.
CentOS / RHEL are the big enterprise server OS. Fedora is the proving ground for CentOS and RHEL. So you are going to find tons and tons more stuff for the big, stable server platforms than for the test bed. Fedora is an awesome product, especially if you are working on learning new stuff or want to know what is likely coming down the pike for CentOS. But for production usage, CentOS is almost always the right choice.
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You can deploy Cockpit to CentOS too. Red Hat just moved it to "default install" in Fedora before it went to CentOS.
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@scottalanmiller said:
You can deploy Cockpit to CentOS too. Red Hat just moved it to "default install" in Fedora before it went to CentOS.
Good to know.
Will have a hunt on Monday have a play oh and of course "Do some Work"
