[lxc-users] re Cockpit-like frontend for LXD?

[Mark Constable]

On 21/11/15 23:22, brian mullan wrote:
> I've not seen any project announce such a tool yet.

Me either so thanks for your comments and links.

> I'm hoping a properly enabled LXD OpenStack would let me use OpenStack "services"
> to deploy, orchestrate, monitor and manage and LXD containers/server created in
>  OpenStack.

That really applies to the 1% enterprise arena whereas I am interested in the 99%
rest-of-us use cases and in a post-xenial world that means mainly systemd at the
core of exposing and controlling both hosts and containers. Getting kitted out and
skilled up to deal with OpenStack just to manage LXC containers seems totally
overkill to me.

> It would also be great to see a developer take the cockpit source & add LXD
>  capabilties to it as well.

Cockpit itself has 2 glaring shortcomings. One is it's not written in a "native"
web app language like PHP or Go and, two, it's developed for RHEL+docker and they
do not naturally want to accommodate a competitors container tech although I am
sure they will eventually incorporate LXC, and maybe even via LXD one day.

In the mean time I'll check out the links you posted and keep polling Github for
anything new.