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FourOh-LLC · 7w
Someone please explain to me what's the purpose of Cockpit? Compared to Webmin it feels incredibly underwhelming. I am not disrespecting the project and its contributors, I just do not understand the ...
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@FourOh-LLC There's no similarity really. Cockpit was developed primarily for managing virtual machines and/or containers ... providing shell access to both and integration w/ AD, LDAP, etc., for easy configuration. Webmin is a legacy system's administration tool and abstraction of the entire OS. The only overlap between them is process management and logging, which both platforms require but for different purposes/goals.
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FourOh-LLC · 6w
That's what I figured. I use Webmin with Proxmox CTs and the Ubuntu LXD stack, and Webmin have tons of utility for me already. Mine is a wrong use case for Cockpit.