What is Cockpit Project?
The Cockpit Project is an open source system administrator interface that makes Linux server management easier through a web browser. It provides a user-friendly graphical interface that allows you to monitor and administer your server more intuitively than working through the command line.
Some key features of Cockpit include:
- Managing storage volumes, network connections, containers, virtual machines, user accounts, etc.
- Monitoring system resource usage like CPU, memory, disk I/O
- Viewing system logs and journal
- Performing updates and installing software packages
- Simplified creation of system backups
Cockpit runs natively on Linux operating systems like RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. It can manage both physical servers and virtual machines through a single interface. It aims to provide simplified server oversight and reduce administrative workload for common tasks.
As an open source project, Cockpit is community-driven and the code is available on GitHub. It is released under the LGPLv2+ license.
Portainer, cPanel, Webmin, Nagios, CentOS Web Panel, Ajenti, ServerSuit, opsi.org, DockStation, RPi-Monitor, Lazydocker, SPanel, SeaLion are some alternatives to Cockpit Project.