How to install Cockpit on Ubuntu 22.04

To Install Cockpit On Ubuntu 22.04

Introduction

Cockpit is a web-based GUI for management servers that typically ships with RHEL-based distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux. It’s a great way to keep tabs on your servers, manage users/groups/storage/services, update software, view logs and so much more.

Procedure Steps

Step – 1 : Check the OS version by using the below command

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release:	22.04
Codename:	jammy

Step – 2 : Now I’m going to update the repository by using apt update command

root@linuxhelp:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [109 kB]
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main i386 Packages [421 kB]
Get:6 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main i386 Packages [587 kB]
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages [1,246 kB]
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Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main Translation-en [225 kB]
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Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/restricted Translation-en [255 kB]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/universe i386 Packages [598 kB]             
Get:13 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main Translation-en [285 kB]        
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Get:16 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/universe Translation-en [162 kB]               
Get:17 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/restricted Translation-en [259 kB]              
Get:18 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe i386 Packages [695 kB]
Get:19 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64 Packages [1,056 kB]
Get:20 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe Translation-en [238 kB]
Get:21 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/main i386 Packages [59.2 kB]
Get:22 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/main amd64 Packages [67.1 kB]                                            
Get:23 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/main Translation-en [11.0 kB]                                            
Get:24 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/universe amd64 Packages [28.4 kB]                                        
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Get:26 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports/universe Translation-en [16.6 kB]                                        
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
251 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

Step – 3 : Then use the below command to install cockpit on Ubuntu machine

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install cockpit -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libflashrom1 libftdi1-2 libllvm13
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  cockpit-bridge cockpit-networkmanager cockpit-packagekit cockpit-storaged cockpit-system cockpit-ws finalrd libblockdev-mdraid2
  libbytesize-common libbytesize1 libpwquality-tools mdadm
Suggested packages:
  cockpit-doc cockpit-pcp cockpit-sosreport udisks2-lvm2 sssd-dbus default-mta | mail-transport-agent dracut-core
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cockpit cockpit-bridge cockpit-networkmanager cockpit-packagekit cockpit-storaged cockpit-system cockpit-ws finalrd
  libblockdev-mdraid2 libbytesize-common libbytesize1 libpwquality-tools mdadm
0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 251 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,313 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9,253 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64 cockpit-bridge amd64 264-1ubuntu0.22.04.1 [469 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64 cockpit-ws amd64 264-
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.140ubuntu13.4) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.2.0-32-generic

Step – 4 : Once the installation completed, start and enable Cockpit with the below command

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

Step – 5 : Now create a user for login by using the below command

root@linuxhelp:~# useradd linuxhelp 

Step – 6 : For log into Cockpit need sudo privileges. So use the below command to add the sudo privileges for the user

root@linuxhelp:~# usermod -aG sudo linuxhelp

Step – 7 : Add container support to our instance for that install podman by using below command

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install podman cockpit-podman -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libflashrom1 libftdi1-2 libllvm13
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  buildah catatonit conmon containernetworking-plugins crun fuse-overlayfs golang-github-containernetworking-plugin-dnsname
  golang-github-containers-common golang-github-containers-image libostree-1-1 libslirp0 slirp4netns uidmap
Suggested packages:
  containers-storage docker-compose
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  buildah catatonit cockpit-podman conmon containernetworking-plugins crun fuse-overlayfs
  golang-github-containernetworking-plugin-dnsname golang-github-containers-common golang-github-containers-image libostree-1-1
  libslirp0 podman slirp4netns uidmap
0 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 251 not upgraded.
Need to get 25.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 110 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/universe amd64 uidmap amd64 1:4.8.1-2ubuntu2.2 [22.4 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 golang-github-containers-image all 5.16.0-3 [29.3 kB]
Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 golang-github-containers-common all 0.44.4+ds1-1 [28.1 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 libostree-1-1 amd64 2022.2-3 [333 kB]
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/podman-auto-update.timer → /lib/systemd/system/podman-auto-update.timer.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants/podman-restart.service → /lib/systemd/system/podman-restart.service.
Setting up cockpit-podman (45-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.1) ...

Step – 8 : Once the installation completed, need to enable podman by using the below command

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl enable --now podman

Step – 9 : Now open the web browser and search with your system ip address along with the port 9090

Step – 10 : Click Advanced option

Step – 11 : Now click Accept the risk and continue

Step – 12 : Now You should be greeted by the login screen.

Step – 13 : After logging in, you will see that the web console is running in limited access mode.

Step – 14 : Click Turn On Administrative Access. Then, when prompted and ask for password, type your user’s password to grant administrative access.

Conclusion :

We have reached the end of this article. In this guide, we have walked you through the steps required to Installation of Cockpit on Ubuntu 22.04. Your feedback is much welcome.