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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.