http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-122.html
Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here
are the release notes from version 122.
Logging into a system via a Bastion Host
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On the Cockpit login screen you can now choose an alternate host to
connect to. Cockpit with use SSH to authenticate you against that host,
and display the admin interface for that host.
Although browsers cannot use SSH directly to connect to machines or
authenticate against them, Cockpit can make this happen. Only one host
needs to have Cockpit listen on port 9090 available to browsers over
TLS, and other hosts can only have SSH accessible on the usual port 22.
Demo:
https://youtu.be/yc64DUydciI
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/5243
Works with UDisks in addition to storaged
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storaged is an actively maintained API for configuring storage on a
Linux system. It is a fork of the older UDisks. storaged has additional
functionality, like LVM, iSCSI and Btrfs and a large number of stability
fixes.
However some systems like older RHEL or Ubuntu don’t yet have storaged.
Cockpit can now also use the older UDisks to configure storage on a
system. A large number of features are disabled, but basic functionality
is present.
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/5264
Related:
https://github.com/storaged-project/storaged/
Explicitly specify javascript dependency versions
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Cockpit’s bundles various javascript dependencies in its admin
interfaces, such as Patternfly or React. In order to help packagers
we’ve now explicitly specified the versions of those dependencies. And
during development we pull them in using the standard Bower registry.
Versions:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/blob/master/bower.json
From the future
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Lars has worked on functionality to show the OpenSCAP security scan
results for containers. This uses the usual atomic scan functionality
that you see on Atomic Host.
Design:
http://cockpit-project.org/blog/images/image-scanning.png
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/5259
Get it
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You can get Cockpit here:
http://cockpit-project.org/running.html
Cockpit 122 is available in Fedora 25:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-122-1.fc25
Or download the tarball here:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/122
Take care,
Stef