Cockpit

Cockpit is a browser-based administration tool for Linux, sponsored by Red Hat.

Installation

Install the cockpit package. Check the optional dependencies to see what packages are required to manage network connections, packages and hard disks.

For additional features, install one of the following packages:

cockpit-machines for managing virtual machines using libvirt
cockpit-pcp for reading PCP metrics and loading PCP archives
cockpit-podman for managing Podman containers (replaces cockpit-docker)
firewalld to manage the Firewall using the Cockpit in Networking
udisks2 to manage Storage

Usage

Start/enable the cockpit.socket unit to start Cockpit .

Visit https://localhost:9090/ in a web browser to use Cockpit. Log in with your Linux account and password.

Configuration

TLS certificate

By default, Cockpit uses a self-signed TLS certificate. To use proper certificate, put a certificate with suffix .cert and a corresponding key with suffix .key in the /etc/cockpit/ws-certs.d/ directory. Cockpit will use the last file in that folder, in alphabetical order, falling back on . The cert and key have to be readable by the cockpit-ws user. Restart to apply. See the page in the official docs for more information.

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