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Using Cockpit test VMs with your own test framework

by Martin Pitt –
category: tutorial
The Cockpit Starter Kit provides the scaffolding for your own Cockpitextensions: a simple page (in React), build system (webpack, babel, eslint, etc.), and an integration test usingCockpit’s own Python test API on top of theChromium DevTools Protocol. See the recentintroduction for details.But in some cases you want to use a...

Cockpit 164

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Storage: Usability improvements
  • System: Show available package updates and missing registration
  • System: Fix inconsistent tooltips
  • Logs: Change severities
  • Machines: Add error notifications
  • Accessibility improvements
  • Reloading the page in the browser now reloads Cockpit package manifests

Cockpit 163

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Hide Docker storage pool reset button when it cannot work properly
  • Drop “Transfer data asynchronously” VDO option on Storage page
  • Update jQuery to version 3.3.1

Cockpit 162

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Show pod name and disks of VMs running in Kubernetes
  • Tighten up the default Content-Security-Policy
  • Drop cockpit-subscriptions and cockpit-integration-tests on Fedora

Cockpit 161

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • New VMs can be created on Machines page
  • VMs running in Kubernetes can now be deleted
  • Improve LVM volume resizing
  • Add new Hardware Information page
  • Rename cockpit-ovirt package to cockpit-machines-ovirt
  • Stop advertising and supporting cockpit-bundled jQuery library

Cockpit 160

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Add kubevirt Virtual Machines overview
  • Redesign package list on Software Updates page and show RHEL Errata
  • AppStream handling on Apps page
  • Change CPU graphs to use “100%” for a fully loaded multi-processor system
  • Show storage, network, and other numbers with 3 digits of precision
  • Add an example bastion container

Cockpit 159

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Configure data deduplication with VDO devices
  • Add serial console to virtual Machines page and redesign the Consoles tab
  • Show more error message details for VM failures on virtual Machines page

Cockpit 158

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Add check boxes for common NFS mount options
  • Clarify Software Update status if only security updates are available
  • Create self-signed certificates with SubjectAltName

Cockpit 156

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Redesign main navigation and support mobile browsing
  • Add project homepage links to Apps page
  • Support alternate Kerberos keytabs
  • Maintain an /etc/issue(5) file with current Cockpit status
  • Use event-driven refresh of oVirt virtual machine data instead of polling

Cockpit 155

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • NFS client support
  • Add “Maintenance” switch for oVirt hosts
  • Fix Terminal rendering issues in Chrome
  • Improve Ctrl+W behaviour in the Terminal
  • Support the upcoming OpenShift 3.7 release