How to install Cockpit

How to install Cockpit 

 Log into your Ubuntu Server instance and issue the command: 

 sudo apt-get install cockpit -y 

 Once the installation completes, start and enable Cockpit with: 

 sudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket 

 Now that Cockpit is installed and running, you can log in. However, depending on how your system is set up, you’ll want to make sure the user you log into Cockpit with has sudo privileges. For that, you would issue the command: 

 sudo usermod -aG sudo USER 

 Where  USER  is the name of the user in question. 

 Just for fun, we’ll add container support to our instance just to show how easy it is. From the terminal window, issue the command: 

 sudo apt-get install podman cockpit-podman -y 

 Start and enable Podman with: 

 sudo systemctl enable --now podman 

 How to log into Cockpit 

 Open a web browser and point it to  https://SERVER:9090 . You should be greeted by the login screen ( Figure A ). 

 Figure A 

 

 Image: Jack Wallen/TechRepublic. Logging into our newly-installed instance of Cockpit. 

 

 If you find that the firewall isn’t allowing you through, but you can enable the correct port with the following: 

 sudo ufw allow 9090 

 Upon logging in, you will see that the web console is running in limited access mode ( Figure B ). 

 Figure B 

 

 Image: Jack Wallen/TechRepublic. We need to grant heightened access to our user. 

 

 We need to grant heightened access to our user. 

 Click Turn On Administrative Access. Then, when prompted ( Figure C ), type your user’s password to grant administrative access. 

 Figure C 

 

 Image: Jack Wallen/TechRepublic. Granting full access to our user in Cockpit.