Integrating Cockpit components into other Web Applications

Stef Walter stefw at redhat.com
Fri Oct 17 10:06:53 UTC 2014


On 17.10.2014 07:36, James Strachan wrote:
> So we’ve a HTML5 (angularjs) console for kubernetes, fabric8, a wiki,
> dashboard, kibana, grafana and lots of Java stuff…. http://hawt.io/ 
> http://hawt.io/plugins/index.html
> 
> Right now hawtio can work with the kubernetes
> pods/services/replication controllers (and
> view/filter/start/stop/create etc) and it let folks look inside JVMs
> if they are running, say, WildFly/Tomcat/ActiveMQ/Camel etc. Its
> basically our console for an aPaaS / iPaaS stuff (e.g. for things
> like JBoss Fuse on OpenShift).
> 
> For each pod/container in kubernetes we know the docker container id
> and host; so it’d be really awesome to then link/embed/reuse cockpit
> to view the docker container UI details; in particular viewing the
> logs of each docker container together with overall docker metadata
> etc.

Indeed, I have some code that does this on a branch. I'll clean it up a
bit, and post back when it's ready.

> Its been on our list for a while to figure out how to integrate
> hawtio and cockpit together; so cockpit can link/embed/reuse hawtio
> and vice versa. Right now the big pressing need we have is an easy
> way to access docker logs which might be the first use case that
> makes us try figure out how to embed/reuse/link cockpit inside
> hawtio.

Yes, and lots to learn to learn on our end from figuring this out as well.

Stef


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