Manage docker\compose containers using cockpit

Question

I recently installed Cockpit to manage my 20.04 server and I was trying to setup docker\compose support on cockpit to manage containers.

The only support I see is for podman, Anyone knows how to set up cockpit to monitor and manage docker containers?

Answer 1

By default, Cockpit uses Podman to manage containers and this can be installed using sudo apt install cockpit-podman podman. The main user visible difference is that podman run some_container replaces the standard docker run some_container syntax, though there are a lot of changes under the hood. If you prefer to use Docker instead while maintaining management via Cockpit, there is a Github repo here that might come in handy.