monitoring

On this post we are going to talk about cockpit how to monitoring and manage your GNU/Linux infrastructure. Based on the official description, Cockpit project is pretty easy to use, install and integrate, you can manage and add servers by ssh credentials to your dashboard, showing logs, monitoring containers(podman/docker), services running, disk usage, etc. I’ve using it around 1 year, the only thing I cannot see it’s an alert tool or event trigger, maybe for the next release; is developed by RH team and open source, it’s already integrated in some of the GNU/Linux distribution ( RH, debian, ubuntu, fedora, etc)....

Into my Devops learning path 👨‍💻 I decided to deploy a monitoring centre into my workstation where I could be able to watch my containers, resources, logs, etc and continue improving my knowledge, in my case I’m using Silverblue developed by Fedora so in here it’s a little bit different the setup; as monitoring tool I choose Cockpit for its great integration and support. Workstation: Silverblue 🖥️ Container engine: Podman ⚙️ Monitoring tool(app/service):Cockpit 📦 I splinted out the instructions in 4 simple parts:...