NOTE: Slightly stolen from https://jreypo.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/how-to-install-cockpit-on-centos-7/
- Download the virt7-testing repo from the cockpit github
wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virt7-testing.repo https://github.com/baude/sig-atomic-buildscripts/raw/master/virt7-testing.repo
- Install cockpit
yum install -y cockpit
- Enable cockpit (notice it’s not a service but a socket)
systemct enable cockpit.socket
- Add cockpit service to firewalld allowed services
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=cockpit
- Reload the firewall to enable the previous step
firewall-cmd reload
- Create a custom systemd configuration file for cockpit service to workaround this issue
cat > /etc/systemd/system/cockpit.service.d/no-tls.conf << EOF
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/libexec/cockpit-ws --no-tls
- Reload the systemd config
systemctl daemon-reload
- Restart cockpit
systemctl restart cockpit
- Access cockpit webgui using http instead httpS at port 9090 and login with the root user
Note: ExecStart needs to be twice to “clear” the default ExecStart defined in the /usr/lib/systemd/system/cockpit.service file, or systemd will complain about it like:
systemd: cockpit.service has more than one ExecStart setting, which is only allowed for Type=oneshot services. Refusing.
You can even customize the host image!