Cockpit Project Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• OS question for new build DIY Nas

  I would personally prefer a hypervisor as the base OS and VMs for every role, like separate VM for NAS functionality, separate VM for media, etc. As per hypervisor, I would recommend taking a look at Proxmox as a good enough Linux-based and low-resource demanding hypervisor. Another Linux option would be pure KVM on any Linux distro you like + Cockpit and Cockpit machines (https://cockpit-project.org/) to manage VMs. Source: 5 months ago

• Looking for a webinterface to controll server/nas/linux box

  See title, and I prefer a interface thats opensource. I want to setup my nas system, controll services and maybe do terminal work aswell. Ive experimented with cockpit ( https://cockpit-project.org/ ) wondered if there are better or different tools out there. They have plugins I like but also mis. No minecraft stuff, no vm controll (They dropper docker for something else) Redhat ?!? Source: 7 months ago

• How to manage local logs

  No problem, journald is in fact structured logging and it provides all you need to do efficient searching, correlation and archival. There is actually a nice web interface too as part of cockpit-project.org although it is nothing like Kibana of course. Source: 10 months ago

• Light weight server management for a Linux cluster

  Cockpit. Is the took you're looking for. Source: 10 months ago

• Ubuntu Server 22.04 slow and laggy

  While people here are correct in terms of Aspeed GPU performance and main usage, you can also check for CPU spikes if there are any. What is the main purpose of the server, and why do you need GUI on the server installation? If you need it just for easy monitoring, you can install cockpit (https://cockpit-project.org/). Source: 10 months ago

• Interesting How This Worked So Well for Me and Relating to My Provider Whose Literally Very Helpfully Make it All Possible!

  They kindly and quickly did it with only requirement on my end was to start fresh. Then I figured I would give cockpit-project.org a try while I am at it. Which I fell in love especially with it's clear dark theming and vivid text and graphs. As a visually impaired person those changes are very helpful! Source: 10 months ago

• Time to start my homelab

  If you want to tinker, go with Debian as the core OS and KVM as the hypervisor. Drop cockpit (https://cockpit-project.org/) as management and here you go. Source: 10 months ago

• Brand new

  I would rather recommend community-driven Debian over Ubuntu, but it is fine. What you can do, is start by installing the KVM hypervisor (unless you are going to run the ARMA server in docker) and install Cockpit for web management (https://cockpit-project.org/). This will be enough to start the config. Source: 11 months ago

• starting new

  Since you are going to use SSH, just deploy Debian or Alma, and here you go. Install Cockpit for web management later on if you need it (https://cockpit-project.org/). Source: 11 months ago

• Hardware/Software recommendations

  There is no such thing as an ideal OS. Some of the products are better in some of the areas, while other software is better in other areas. For example, Proxmox is the virtualization platform that is targeting virtualization needs. It has support for software RAID, but it doesn't mean that this is the primary feature that is constantly developed. Any NAS OS basically doing the same but targeting storage and... Source: 11 months ago

• Best Way To Connect to a Linux Machine GUI on my home network remotely

  But, for servers, I tend to just use Cockpit, which is a system administration Web-UI that includes tools for administering containers. It works with socket activation, so it doesn't use any resources unless you connect to it. Source: 11 months ago

• Concept of a webbased Open-Source SSH client

  I’ve used cockpit web console project for ssh web gui. https://cockpit-project.org/ Then Cloudflare with email whitelist code verification. Source: 11 months ago

• Hosted Webssh that can maintain state?

  Setup a vm with something like fedora server (which comes with https://cockpit-project.org/ preinstalled) + tmux. Source: 11 months ago

• What OS should I run?

  Ubuntu is fine. Just install KVM to run VMs, docker to run containers, and cockpit project (https://cockpit-project.org/) to manage everything. Source: 11 months ago

• What OS should I run?

  I also use Ubuntu Server LTS in all my machines and it works perfectly fine, just install some utilities, check out RHEL Web Console for Ubuntu (aka cockpit) https://cockpit-project.org/ and the VM plugin (aka cockpit-machines), there is also a plugin to run containers and pods (aka cockpit-podman). You can also install MAAS https://maas.io/ wich is more related to Canonical/Ubuntu itself and uses LXC/LXD to do... Source: 11 months ago

• Very basic samba server. Next step?

  Install KVM + Cockpit (https://cockpit-project.org/). Try both VMs and Docker/LXC. Decide which is better for you. Source: 12 months ago

• Moving to Proxmox from Ubuntu + Docker

  If you need VMs, you can keep your Ubuntu server. Install KVM on it and Cockpit (https://cockpit-project.org/), and use both VMs and Docker in your current deployment. Source: 12 months ago

• OpenVPN selfhosted

  Both OpenVPN Access Server and CloudConnexa has easy setup tools available when using OpenVPN 3 Linux, via openvpn3-as, openvpn-connector-setup and the OpenVPN Connector package for Cockpit. Source: 12 months ago

• Linux or Windows for dual cpu systems?

  If the dual-CPU system will be used only as a server, and you want some graphical interface for it, then I suggest installing the Cockpit web UI. My home NAS is minimal Debian 11 running Cockpit for managing the server. Cockpit is excellent for quickly managing a Linux server graphically while also not conflicting with administering the server at a command line. Source: 12 months ago

• Really new to LVM. I'm stuffing an old machine with a couple of old drives. Should I be leveraging this?

  Zfs mirrors are the easiest set it and forget it storage. Since you are on Ubuntu, look into cockpit. It gives you a nice web management solution that can also handle your zfs with a plugin. Source: 12 months ago

• Do I need Virtualization/Containerization?

  I am a fan of virtualization and run a three-node Proxmox cluster along with a Hyper-V host at home. I avoided Docker for years because I couldn't wrap my head around it. A couple of months ago, I migrated my NAS from being a Proxmox VM to bare-metal. It runs minimal Debian 11 (no desktop GUI) and the Cockpit web UI with the 45Drives Cockpit File Sharing extension for managing the server and file shares,... Source: about 1 year ago