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Cockpit

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Introduction

Cockpit is a free and opensource web-based graphical server management tool that allows administrators and Linux users to easily manage and configure their Linux servers/PCs from a browser.

Cockpit is easy to install and simple to use. At a glance, it allows you to perform the following tasks.     

  • Keep tabs of system metrics and performance    
  • Create and manage users   
  • Browse and search system logs    
  • Inspect and interact with systemd-based services    
  • Access the terminal and run commands    
  • Inspect system’s hardware    
  • Create and manage virtual machines    
  • Upgrade software packages to their latest versions    
  • Configure Firewall & and many more.

Cockpit Installation

Update Local Package Index 

To start off, log into your server and refresh the local package index as follows.

sudo apt update

Install Cockpit Web Console 

The Cockpit web console packages are provided by the official Ubuntu repositories. You can verify this by running the following command.

apt search cockpit

So, install Cockpit using the APT package manager as shown. 

sudo apt install cockpit -y

The command installs the Cockpit web console alongside other additional packages, libraries, and dependencies.

Verify Installation

Once installed, you can verify if cockpit is installed by running the following command: 

 

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