This document tries to summarize what Cockpit can currently do. Comparing each area with the equivalent tool that can be used to achieve the same in current versions of SLE.
Cockpit contains a viewer that is pretty similar in capabilities to yast2-journal. Maybe the YaST filters are a bit more powerful, but both applications offer basically the same level of functionality.
NTP configuration is very simplistic in Cockpit, compared to YaST. See for example this section of a post in the YaST blog and compare that with the Cockpit UI.
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The cockpit-machines extension offers an UI that can be used to define and manage virtual machines. The equivalent
in SLE would be virt-manager, which is a GUI application.
According to this SUSE internal confluence page,
cockpit-machines misses quite some features when compared to virt-manager:
- no video device choice
- no watchdog choice
- no TPM
- can not add a controller (scsi, usb etc...)
- creation without any template (very limited)
- no machine type choice
- no BIOS legacy / UEFI choice
- add virtio devices is not yet possible ? (only passthrough seems to be available)
Read more about cockpit-machines in these articles: [1]
[2].
Take into account that, even if cockpit-machines is still quite far away from virt-manager in terms of supported
functionality, Red Hat decided to deprecate virt-manager in favor of the Cockpit extension.