Atomic

Applies to Fedora Atomic 22

Running Cockpit on Atomic

Fedora Atomic 22 comes with certain parts of Cockpit integrated into the build. This includes the cockpit-bridge and cockpit-shell UI resources.

To use Cockpit with Atomic, you have two choices:

Add your Atomic system to the dashboard of another Cockpit instance.

• Click on Dashboard and on the + button to add a server.
• Type the address of your Atomic system.
• If necessary type root authentication credentials to prepare the other Atomic system.

or:

Run the Cockpit Webservice privileged container on your Atomic system.

• Run the following command: $ sudo atomic run cockpit/ws
• Access cockpit on port 9090 with a web browser.
• Use your atomic system user and password to log in. Usually this is fedora or sometimes cloud-user.

Known limitations

• SSH must be enabled for either of the above mechanisms.
  • Public key authentication is not supported.
  • Password authentication must be enabled.
• If using the Cockpit privileged container:
  • cockpit-ws runs at all times, is not started on demand.
  • cockpit-ws is not protected by SELinux.