Cockpit

“starting your website with this image is an immediate turn off”

“This has become the one tool for all my AI-powered work (so most of my work in fact) at Big Tech.”

“having a dashboard with toggles, formatted logs and such is helpful”

“the 'Cockpit' thing that ships with a default Fedora install is much less offensive in terms of how it mangles system configuration files”

“Cockpit has a "remote" host connection feature solving this exact pain-point”

“Cockpit accepts the constraints of living in existing browsers, so it requires exposing a port to the internet”

“Everything they mention as "missing", or "novel" has been part of Cockpit for over a decade”

“It changes permissions nicely and it's nice for my Fedora NAS Jellyfin Torrent server management.”

“I like cockpit because I can use the machine as a regular Linux machine.”

“I'd rather have a linux machine with a webUI on top like this than a full blown proxmox/truenas/unraid set up”

“it's a nice tool to set up the essentials of a VM and provide remote access to the VM console”

“there is now finally an appeal in Cockpit to be used as a NAS”

“Cockpit is great to get a quick glance at the state of servers”

“This is super cool. Wish I had this back in my sysadmin days.”

“Very clean way to get the full picture of the system.”

“Cockpit could actually get away with being a decent NAS interface.”

“A webui for creating vms is certainly convenient if you’re doing it once a year like me.”

“The number one reason I love Cockpit is because I probably don't even remember which distro which is using”

“in a place I already have handy for generally poking around those machines”

“it's a good all-in-one solution for managing standalone servers”

“once I had multiple nodes, I kept SSH-ing into each box anyway”

“I like cockpit because I can use the machine as a regular Linux machine”

“with all the potential vulnerabilities of 400 npm dependencies”

“It's socket-activated, so doesn't really take up memory unless you actively use it.”

“I like that cockpit is generally mobile friendly because I can use it remotely”

“it takes up so much resources. not fit for small servers.”

“it is less secure to have a web browser instead of a standard client”

“It's such a bloat that only takes up space and memory for most people.”

“I really appreciate the systemd logging functionality in Cockpit.”

“I have used cockpit and like it. It allows me to quickly see the entirety of my system.”

“having a dashboard I can access from a bookmark in my browser is handy”

“Instead of hiding all those complexities of the server behind UI, I would like to see each part of the application teach me how to achieve the same result in CLI.”

“The worst one is password based login it enables”

“It's neutered and not as full featured, but not bad in a pinch.”

“it doesn't replace standard server management approaches with its own configuration storage”

“When it evolved a couple years ago to automatically set up the bridge for libvirt correctly, it had arrived.”

“You do can logon into a server right on the logon page. That is nice.”

“its pretty good for getting a quick overview of things and you can certainly do some administration with it, but you run into its limitations pretty fast”

“It's generally very good, though I never really figured out how to graphically swap out a hard disk in a RAID without trashing the data”

“the limited amount of projects and lack of visibility into the CLI it uses on the backend”