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Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2014-02-13 · latest 2026-03-22

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  1. …server way more easily. This should be a straightforward configuration option error installing. ( https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/Proxying-Coc... )
    comment by thunderbong · 2026-03-22 · in Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
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    Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
    story by modinfo · 2026-03-19 · 180 comments
  3. For others curious, https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit shows that it's written in several languages, with C at the #1 place, with JS and Python following. "src/cockpit" (main backend logic?) is Python.
    comment by fulafel · 2023-10-16 · in Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers
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    Cockpit: A web-based graphical interface for servers
    story by akamhy · 2023-03-29 · 1 comment
  5. …In a slightly different vein: * netdata - https://github.com/netdata/netdata * cockpit - https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/ And then of course there's grafana which is definitely not for the feint of heart. There are so many…
    comment by kayson · 2022-06-06 · in Dashy – A self-hosted homepage for your homelab
  6. …Cannot find one so far. Cockpit: "here is no graphical file manager, and we don't plan to add one." https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/11011 CuberDuck: "FTP and SFTP do not support a copy operation." Is there a way with GUI?
    comment by nuker · 2021-02-20 · in Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers
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    Cockpit: Open-source web based control panel for Linux servers
    story by illuminated · 2020-09-08 · 0 comments
  8. …plugin. Cockpit is very cool, and is standard with Fedora Server. https://www.samba.org/samba/GUI/ https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/3534
    comment by cmurf · 2019-05-14 · in Over 25k Linksys routers vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure flaw
  9. …I know it's cool on HN to hate on systemd, but this is dumb. Cockpit already uses bare `hostname`: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/blob/dbd7f3a8487a... It would be a 20 line patch to break the systemd "dependency" on hostnamed.…
    comment by evol262 · 2018-02-23 · in Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser
  10. …In the case of Cockpit they are things like systemd's own idiosyncratic API for process #1 ... * https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/blob/0dd4ee7bac14... ... systemd's hostnamed server ... * https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit…
    comment by JdeBP · 2018-02-23 · in Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser
  11. …and libblockdev, providing a good chunk of storage configuration via web UI, among other things. https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit
    comment by cmurf · 2016-09-19 · in The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (2011)
  12. …to communicate to the backend. I expect this project will evolve into something much bigger. https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit
    comment by antoncohen · 2014-02-13 · in Cockpit, a web-based server management interface