Installing Cockpit on Fedora after initial install

[JaredBusch]

As everyone who reads my guides knows, I prefer to start my Fedora installs from a clean Minimal install using the NetInstall image.

Cockpit is a lightweight web interface that you can use to manage your Linux based servers. For me that means Fedora.

Like all core functionality, the installation and configuration is a snap.

Install Cockpit and its dependencies.

dnf -y install cockpit

Start the service and enable it to start on subsequent boot up.

systemctl start cockpit
systemctl enable cockpit.socket

Allow connections in through the firewall

firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload

Navigate to your server ip on port 9090
https://IPAddress:9090

Like most tools, it uses a self signed SSL certificate that will generate a warning to click through.

You should be greeted with the log in page.