cockpit-podman is a web-based interface for managing Podman containers as part of the Cockpit server administration environment. It communicates with Podman through its REST API, presenting container workloads through a graphical interface rather than requiring users to perform routine administration from the command line.
The software fits naturally into Cockpit’s browser-based approach to system management. It provides a consolidated view of Podman resources and exposes common lifecycle and inspection tasks from the same interface used for other Cockpit administration modules. This makes it particularly useful for administrators who want direct control over containers on a server without adopting a larger container orchestration platform.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Manage Podman containers from Cockpit’s browser-based administration interface.
- Create containers and add containers to pods.
- Start, stop, restart, pause and delete containers.
- Create and manage Podman pods.
- Inspect container details, configuration and runtime information.
- View container logs and health-check information.
- Open an interactive terminal for suitable running containers.
- Search for, download and manage container images.
- Run containers directly from available images.
- Commit changes from a container to a new image.
- Display resource utilisation and container statistics.
- Work with Podman Quadlets from the graphical interface.
- Configure environment variables, port mappings, volumes and other container settings during creation.
- Search registries for container images before downloading them.
- See which containers use a particular image.
- Integrates with Cockpit rather than requiring a separate management service.
- Communicates with Podman through its REST API.
- Uses Cockpit’s authentication and host-management environment.
Website: github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-podman
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Developer: Cockpit Project
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
cockpit-podman is written in JavaScript and Python. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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