This is a summary of the Cockpit weekly release. This week it was 0.85
Varying users on dashboard machines
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Cockpit now supports adding machines to the dashboard with different
user logins for each one. This can be useful in cases where you're
adding cloud instances to your dashboard, and they require logging in
with a 'cloud-user' and not the same user as your other servers.
Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N93I0gzvj5c
https://trello.com/c/pQJbFEVI/221-0-85-connect-to-machine-as-alternate-user
Non standard SSH ports
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When Cockpit connects to a machine that was added to the dashboard, it
does so over SSH. Cockpit can now connect on non-standard SSH ports.
Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N93I0gzvj5c
https://trello.com/c/0B6y8SXP/216-0-85-better-workflow-for-adding-machines
Troubleshooting machine connectivity
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Cockpit now allows you to fix connectivity issues for servers that are
added to the dashboard. This includes adjusting authentication, checking
on host keys and more.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-design/master/a...
Fix SELinux certificate file type bug
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Cockpit 0.84 failed to start on certain distros because SELinux wasn't
available or couldn't be used to reset the certificate file context.
This bug has been fixed.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/3206
Work around bug in Firefox 42
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A bug in Firefox 42 caused Cockpit to often load with a blank screen,
due to layout calculation issues. The layout code has been changed to
work around this issue.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185136
Docker restart container timeout
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Previously Cockpit called the Docker API without a timeout when
restarting containers. This caused Docker to immediately kill the
container without waiting for it to shutdown cleanly. Cockpit now passes
a timeout.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/3230
Next
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Marius has made progress getting the Cockpit integration test suite to
run on Debian. Without the integration tests running for a certain
distro, there's no way to ensure Cockpit actually works there.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/3202
There's lots of other work in progress. You can see it here in the
Design and Implementation columns:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/Features
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pulls
https://trello.com/b/mtBhMA1l/cockpit
Get it
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You can get Cockpit 0.85 in Fedora 23 or Fedora Rawhide:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-e368240084
Or via COPR for CentOS, RHEL, and earlier versions of Fedora:
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/g/cockpit/cockpit-preview/
Or download the tarball here:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/0.85
Cheers,
Stef