Do you use any web ui’s for your Linux server? I’m comfortable managing my server using the command line, but I also want a graphical interface that shows an overview of what is running on the server, the way the resources are being used what containers are running and so on. Also file download uploads would be great to have.
What do you recommend which is light and resources and is suitable for less powerful servers with low ram?
So far these are the more interstating tools I’ve found: (they vary in functionality their provide)
CasaOS Cockpit SartOS Orb Kasm
ssh?
He wasn’t speaking loudly at all.
Way too cumbersome to use with a touchscreen
You administer your servers with a touch screen.
No hate as I sometimes use my phone to ssh in to things
Just SSH. Every public facing piece of software (I.e. a web interface) adds more complexity for misconfiguration or security vulnerabilities.
You can mount you remote filesystem locally and use your local file manager and text editors to manage most tasks. If you use ansible you can make changes to a local configuration and deploy the state to the server without needing to run anything special on the server side. It is especially effective if you also run docker.
And for monitoring I usually just have a tmux with btop running. Which is fine if you don’t need long term time series data, then you might want to look at influxdb/grafana - but even those I would run locally behind a firewall, with the server reporting the data to the database.
I tried to install Cockpit on Debian, and it just downloaded an entire Linux Desktop? Really weird, had the configs and open port all but still the UI was not showing.
Might give it another try but would prefer something less resource heavy
“Hey you wanted NetworkManager, right? We’ve decided everyone wants NetworkManager.”
Last time I didn’t use --no-install-recommends
Ooh right! I hate Debian that it does this.
It makes sense in a lot of cases, just not all of them.
Huh, it’s got to be the maintainers who make that list, right? Not the developers?
Either way, that must be an awkward philosophical snarl. “Oh I see we’re running Gnome again.”
I have found Nginx Proxy Manager to be a huge time-saver for configuring nginx and certbot.
Ooooh I’m gonna have to take a look at that
Have a look at Netdata, Alerta and Prometheus.
Of all the things you mentioned Cockpit is the only sane one.
I want to view multiple endpoints at once though.
They had that feature but they discontinued it.
Cockpit.
Btop tells me everything I need to know, and it does it with style.
I mainly need this when i don’t have access to my own laptop and ssh keys.
You could use a hardware key for ssh with a passphrase protected key. I use a solo key v1 myself. There are even keys that let you enter a pin on the device instead of the computer, so you don’t have to worry about key loggers. And you can set up Sudo to work with a key too.
lxc-ls -f
Shows me what is running and that’s about it.
Cockpit has been my go too, very quick to just get up and working plus including a web terminal for the rest of what you need.
I used ArozOS before, but I have now no usecase anymore for UIs for the host OS
