Terminal User Interface equivalent to cockpit

[fischerdouglas]

To those who needs to deploy and maintain remotely appliances and virtual appliances depending on end user interactions, cockpit is a dream!

A thing that avoid several unnecessary access through vnc/anydesk and etc.

But, there is still a small part that is still a pain.

When network is not available by some reason, cockpit is also unavailable...

So, I imagine that a TUI version of the core of cockpit, ncurses based... With the same goals os the console of VMware ESXi, would be a great thing.

I imagine for example that the same Network Manager the is used on web-gui, will adequately replaced by nm-tui.

So... Is this a this that very far from the objectives of cockpit project?

[jelly]

Cockpit has no interest in providing a TUI, this would be a lot of work for the Cockpit team to develop, maintain. If you have a machine without networking you can still access Cockpit via a local browser on localhost.

[fischerdouglas]

Thank you for your sincerity!
Considering this, no more to add.

[barbecued]

@jelly how do you suggest doing this on a minimal install with no GUI or web browser installed?

[jelly]

I would need to know more about your use case but you could setup a bastion host so you only have to run cockpit-bridge on the machine itself.

[fischerdouglas]

Why not think on a front-end ncurses for cockpit APIs that already exists?

Consume those APIs via loopback...

[jelly]

Feel free to give it a try, but it's a lot of work for us and we have no plans in that direction.