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Best self hosted, web based GUI tool to manage multiple servers
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So far there's cockpit which ships with Centos 8;
Any other suggestions?
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I'd be up for some ideas too, I've been using Cockpit on all my linux boxes.
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Mist CE is a bit on the heavy side resource-wise, plus its more focused on server management rather than system administration (when compared right next to Cockpit).
I can not get an account from them
Indeed, I am looking for a SolusVM alternatives but some are dead or old-school projects. Thinking to start from scratch, with regarding security aspects and command lines as backend, do you recommend which language to start as front-end? PHP? Python? Other?
Whatever you use, please ensure you have proper privilege separation
The backend (running stuff as root) and the frontend (running as www-data or a similar unprivileged user) should be completely separate components. The backend should not be exposed to the user. The frontend should not allow direct access to change anything on the server. It should user inter-process communication (eg via a UNIX socket, IPC APIs offered by the programming language you're using, gRPC, etc) with a backend service that properly verifies that the user is authenticated to perform the action, before doing anything.
This should hopefully reduce your attack surface (nothing the user directly touches is executing as root), and theoretically reduce the likelihood of risks around RCE (Remote Code Execution), as long as your backend service properly validates all inputs.
I wouldn't recommend PHP for something like this though. Python is good and already available on most servers. Go is good too, especially since Go apps can be statically compiled into a single executable.
Nice thanks @Daniel15 for your precious advices. I've been familiar with PHP since its beginning, but I will take a look at Go for this though even learning from scratch to start a project takes a long time and dedis hires.
If you feel comfortable with PHP, then writing the frontend with it is fine, although PHP isn't so good for backend services (doable but not ideal)
If using PHP, I think I'd put Python in the middle layer. Just looking at Go, it's not hard to learn, natively supported by major OS'es, but it seems to take a long trip for having my codes mature.
I am blocking ports 9090 on every VPS I install Cockpit on except for whitelisted IP addresses.
Currently cockpit has still been the easiest thing to use.
I should clarify here:
1. Easy to use
2. Easy to install
3. GUI Web Based (in a browser)
4. Displays basic information like ram, disk, cpu utilization as a percentage of total with the total visable. OS, I/O and maybe network performance.
accidental double post
necro.... @Arkas