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Multi-server management panel
Hi All,
Recently started upgrading to Debian 13 from 12. I have used Cockpit to access servers in one place.
However, I found that the host switcher has disappeared from later Cockpit versions. I looked and it appears that it has been deprecated as of version 322.
Although it can be re-enabled by including AllowMultiHost=yes in the config file (will constantly remind you that it isn't secure), I am considering alternative solutions that may work better for managing multiple machines.
Are there any better options for web-based multi-host management?
reGarDS,
eguo
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interesting topic, hope someone gonna answer it 😎
Something lightweight, Ansible.
Puppet for a full scale orchestrator with state management.
Managing k8s cluster apps, go for ArgoCD.
Not specifically dashboards tho
These are all excellent for orchestration. You are right in that currently I'm looking for something that'll give me simple, direct control of all my nodes (i.e. dashboard)
i never liked ansible as it needed (a specific version of) python on the node to be present.
but used (open) rport before which worked decently.
Use raw mode (no python required) if you just want automation with pure shell commands and don't need the convenience of builtin or community modules. You'd have to keep it idempotent yourself tho
ah interesting, didnt know about that. ill check it out.
If you know k8s (or want to learn for real jobs), k3s is a single binary and simple to install as clusters. Then you have many options of GUI/TUI dashboards to choose from. My goto is k9s with nodeShell enabled. A single terminal to navigate from a single node cluster to multiple clusters with thousands of nodes.