Building Cockpit together

giacomo · February 21, 2019, 1:11pm

My bad: we do not have a document describing the road map. You can find some info in the forum, we also talked a bit together at FOSDE, and finally some marginal notes ares on my private workstation

We are focusing now on 3 main tasks:

firewall configuration (without proxy and IPS parts). @davide_marini is leading the analysis and he carefully reports everything in the wiki: Firewall UI · NethServer/dev Wiki · GitHub
@edoardo_spadoni is focusing on the UI part, while @Amygos and me are working on the API one
@stephdl is blending Cockpit to user needs implementing the delegation part: Cockpit delegation UI · NethServer/dev Wiki · GitHub
next step is the mail module Home · NethServer/dev Wiki · GitHub @davidep is already doing some preliminary work on it

dasois · February 21, 2019, 2:16pm

Thanks for the explanation!
Would it be a good idea to move this information to the Project feature of GitHub?
I also noticed that the issue-tab is disabled in the cockpit repository, is that intentional?

edoardo_spadoni · February 21, 2019, 2:23pm

The issue tab is disabled because all issues are centralized here: GitHub - NethServer/dev: NethServer issue tracker

giacomo · February 22, 2019, 10:19am

Once we used the project board inside the cockpit repo to track the first alpha.
The problem is keeping it up to date, honestly I don’t have the time to do it

Still, there is a NS board here: https://github.com/orgs/NethServer/projects/1

dasois · February 22, 2019, 11:43am

Okay, I understand that these things need fostering…
However this makes it difficult for new guys like my to find their way into the codebase and get an overview. Also a issue-list of not-too-hard bugs or easy features would be very helpful in order to find my way into the code. This is where a project board combined with a separate issue list would be very helpful!

davidep · February 22, 2019, 5:28pm

Now there’s an Ejabberd Cockpit application on development: https://github.com/NethServer/nethserver-ejabberd/pull/20#issuecomment-466399364

According to Cockpit guidelines, we must rework our code to remove the “content-security-policy” directive from “manifest.json” files: https://github.com/search?q=org%3ANethServer++“content-security-policy”&type=Code

To make the Ejabberd Cockpit UI work without the blamed CSP “unsafe-inline” directive the JS code was separated from the HTML partials code.

<script> tag contents goes to app.js or other static JS file
style= HTML attributes cannot be used

We could fix the “nethserver-cockpit-empty” kickstart repo accordingly, starting from here for example:

github.com

NethServer/nethserver-cockpit-empty/blob/36b523480dffc423bd7f64589563880da18519d4/ui/views/dashboard.html#L3-L7


<script>
$('[i18n]').each(function () {
    $(this).text(_($(this).attr('i18n')))
});
</script>

What do you think?

giacomo · February 25, 2019, 8:16am

This seems a reasonable limitation to have better security, but does it work with VueJS? I have no idea, maybe @edoardo_spadoni can help us here.

If it works and doesn’t break existing things, go with with CSP enabled.

giacomo · February 26, 2019, 8:07am

You could start with some simple applications which need porting like fail2ban, UPS or nextcloud.

Take a look to GitHub - NethServer/nethserver-mattermost and GitHub - NethServer/nethserver-ejabberd for some inspiration!

Axel · February 27, 2019, 9:56am

Hello
some bad question…

Whats about securety with cockpit?
witch web browser ist save for using cockpit ?
did cockpit uses java ?

thx axel

giacomo · February 28, 2019, 10:51am

You can find many info online.

No, thanks god!

federico.ballarini · February 28, 2019, 11:48am

We can load pages without taking a coffee break

giacomo · March 5, 2019, 10:25am

As request by @dasois, @davidep has created a Cockpit board: https://github.com/orgs/NethServer/projects/3

We will try to keep it updated!

robb · March 5, 2019, 11:39am

but… but… I like coffee

dasois · March 5, 2019, 12:13pm

Sick! Thank you!

alefattorini · March 6, 2019, 1:53pm

Wonderful news! I love that

dasois · March 11, 2019, 7:43am

My personal top priority issue would be integration tests, so maybe we can include that into the project board?

giacomo · March 11, 2019, 8:08am

Added: https://github.com/orgs/NethServer/projects/3#card-18638780

Spiral · August 23, 2019, 6:50pm

Will the Cockpit plug-ins be available, such as, cockpit-machines?

https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-virtualmachines

pike · September 25, 2019, 6:07pm

Removing modules (and packages), compatibility with NethGUI
My test server was installed with NethGUI, then it was updated and I installed several packages (and modules) from NethGUI. Now also Cockpit is present.

But…

not all NethGUI packages are shown into “Applications”.
there’s quite differences between NethGUI software center and Cockpit software center (for instance, i cannot see what modules i already installed)
some packages seems needed (dependencies) for installing other (for instance, email seems to have dependencies likes rSpamd, nethserver-mail-filter, nethserver-mail-getmail)
for remove packages i must access to Application section because Software Center cannot be used

Just trying to point out the situation, that’s not a complain.
IMHO, at least from Software Center I should be able to:

understand what’s installed on the server
remove unwanted packages

davidep · September 25, 2019, 7:18pm

Both functions are implemented in the Applications page.

Roles are

software center to add/update/upgrade,
applications to run/remove …but remove is a very secondary function