A summary of the Cockpit weekly release. There's a new release every
week. Here are the highlights from the 0.112 and 0.113 releases.
Display time information for systemd timer jobs
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Harish Anand a Google Summer of Code student working on Cockpit, and
he's implementing systemd timers. These are similar to cron jobs, and
are a structured way of running a command or other systemd unit at a
specific time. Some of his initial work got merged, and you can see it
in action here:
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2mGAlpZWQUQ?rel=0
Merged:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4503
More:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4645
Wireframes:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-design/master/s...
Hide unmanaged Network Interfaces
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NetworkManager has the concept of marking certain network interfaces as
"unmanaged". This is done with a NM_CONTROLLED="no" setting in a file
placed in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ Cockpit now respects the
admins wishes and and hides such interfaces from its Network configuration.
The *On/Off* switch is also disabled appropriately for unknown interfaces.
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4627
More:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4640
Bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330552
Network bonds are created with Active/Backup
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When a new network bond is created the *Active/Backup* mode is used as
the default. This is a more common choice for admins, and makes sense
to point people in this direction.
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4653
Bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348066
Added textual fields to container resource sliders
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Users can now type actual amounts in memory megabytes, or CPU shares
when starting a container, in addition to being able to use a slider.
Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/3aTGCPy.png
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4611
Disable tuned correctly when disabling performance profiles
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The tuned service needs to be stopped and disabled when choosing the
"none" performance profile. The behavior now lines up with what users
expect using the tuned-adm command line tooling.
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4623
Bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330473
From the Future
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Lars is working on making the terminal be resizable, so you're not
limited to a small display when working on the machine.
Change:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/4633
Try it out
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Cockpit 0.113 is available now:
http://cockpit-project.org/running.html
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/0.113
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-0.113-1.fc24
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/g/cockpit/cockpit-preview/
Take care,
Stef