Cockpit - A Powerful Tool to Monitor and Administer Multiple Linux Servers Using a Web Browser | Linux Today

Cockpit – A Powerful Tool to Monitor and Administer Multiple Linux Servers Using a Web Browser

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Aaron Kili
Oct 6, 2016

Cockpit is an easy-to-use, lightweight and simple yet powerful remote manager for GNU/Linux servers, it’s an interactive server administration user interface that offers a live Linux session via a web browser. It can run on several Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Arch Linux among others. Cockpit makes Linux discoverable thereby enabling system administrators to easily and reliably carry out tasks such as starting containers, managing storage, network configurations, log inspections coupled with several others.

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Aaron Kili

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