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Cockpit 225 and Cockpit Podman 21

by Matej Marušák –
category: release
  • Machines: Add support for VM snapshots
  • Developer API: Launch and reattach to a long-running process
  • Podman: Support for pod groups
  • Podman: Support checkpoint and restore
  • Podman: Registry selection in “download image” dialog
  • Podman: Selected tag removal during deletion

Cockpit 222

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Logs: More flexible text filters
  • Services, Dashboard: Hide some buttons when access is limited
  • Webserver: Lock down cockpit.service privileges

Cockpit 221

by Marius Vollmer –
category: release
  • Support for Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy
  • Accounts: Hide some buttons when access is limited
  • Developers: Importing “base1/patternfly.css” is deprecated

Aligning Cockpit with Common Criteria

by Matej Marušák –
category: announcement
In the last few releases new features were delivered to make Cockpit meet the Common Criteria and thus making it possible to undergo the certification process in the near future.This certification is often required for large organizations, particularly in the public sector, and also gives users more confidence in using...

Scale Cockpit troubleshooting to your computing fleet

by Martin Pitt –
category: announcement
You might know Cockpit as a troubleshooting tool for individual machines. But once you discover and test a solution, wouldn’t it be nice to apply it to all your other machines in your data center?Of course, not every problem works this way. You wouldn’t extend LVM with a new hard...

Creating Plugins for the Cockpit User Interface

by Stef Walter –
category: tutorial
Note: This post was updated in Aug 2022 to adjust to reflect Cockpit UI and development best practices.Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers. You can easily add your own custom pages to the navigation.For this tutorial you need to install your distribution’s cockpit packages or build it from...

Cockpit 218

by Martin Pitt –
category: release
  • Services: Improved accessibility and mobile support
  • Overview: Add uptime information
  • Disable idle timeout by default
  • Support building without polkit