Cockpit CMS: Cockpit CMS is a flexible, open-source, and headless content management system designed to meet the needs of developers looking for a lightweight, API-first platform to manage content across various digital ecosystems. It is optimized for handling dynamic content, providing an intuitive interface for creating and managing collections, regions, and custom fields. This system allows users to define content models, structure data, and manage relationships between different content types, giving full control over content presentation and interaction.

The headless nature of Cockpit CMS means it doesn’t dictate how or where content is displayed, offering the flexibility to integrate with any front-end technology such as React, Vue.js, or Angular, and serve content to a wide range of applications, from websites and mobile apps to IoT devices. By providing a powerful and developer-centric API, Cockpit CMS ensures that developers can easily fetch, update, and delete content while maintaining high performance and scalability.

Cockpit’s modular architecture supports the addition of custom features through plugins, allowing for seamless integration with other tools or services. Additionally, it supports various database backends, including SQLite, MySQL, and MongoDB, offering flexibility in terms of hosting environments and scalability requirements. This makes it well-suited for both small-scale applications and complex, high-traffic enterprise solutions.

Cockpit CMS is ideal for projects requiring a decoupled architecture, where the back-end content management system operates independently from the front-end presentation layer. Its focus on simplicity, extensibility, and performance allows developers to deliver a modern, efficient content management solution that scales with the needs of the project. Whether you’re building a content-heavy website, a mobile app, or an IoT platform, Cockpit CMS offers a reliable, customizable, and lightweight solution for managing and delivering content.

To subscribe to this product from Azure Marketplace and initiate an instance using the Azure compute service, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Azure Marketplace and subscribe to the desired product.
2. Search for “virtual machines” and select “Virtual machines” under Services.
3. Click on “Add” in the Virtual machines page, which will lead you to the Create a virtual machine page.
4. In the Basics tab:

• • Ensure the correct subscription is chosen under Project details.
  • Opt for creating a new resource group by selecting “Create new resource group” and name it as “myResourceGroup.”

5. Under Instance details:

• • Enter “myVM” as the Virtual machine name.
  • Choose “East US” as the Region.
  • Select “Ubuntu 18.04 LTS” as the Image.
  • Leave other settings as default.

6. For Administrator account:

• • Pick “SSH public key.”
  • Provide your user name and paste your public key, ensuring no leading or trailing white spaces.

7. Under Inbound port rules > Public inbound ports:

• • Choose “Allow selected ports.”
  • Select “SSH (22)” and “HTTP (80)” from the drop-down.

8. Keep the remaining settings at their defaults and click on “Review + create” at the bottom of the page.
9. The “Create a virtual machine” page will display the details of the VM you’re about to create. Once ready, click on “Create.”
10. The deployment process will take a few minutes. Once it’s finished, proceed to the next section.

To connect to the virtual machine:

1. Access the overview page of your VM and click on “Connect.”
2. On the “Connect to virtual machine” page:

• • Keep the default options for connecting via IP address over port 22.
  • A connection command for logging in will be displayed. Click the button to copy the command. Here’s an example of what the SSH connection command looks like:
    “`
    ssh [email protected]
    “`

3. Using the same bash shell that you used to generate your SSH key pair, you can either reopen the Cloud Shell by selecting >_ again

or going to https://shell.azure.com/bash.
4. Paste the SSH connection command into the shell to initiate an SSH session.

Usage/Deployment Instructions

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Note: Search product on Azure marketplace and click on “Get it now”

Click on Continue

Click on Create

Creating a Virtual Machine, enter or select appropriate values for zone, machine type, resource group and so on as per your choice.

After Process of Create Virtual Machine. You have got an Option Go to Resource Group 

Click Go to Resource Group

Click on the Network Security Group: cockpit-nsg

Click on Inbound Security Rule

Click on Add

Add Port

Add Port

Destination Port Ranges Section*  (where default value is 8080)

8080

Select Protocol as TCP

Option Action is to be Allow

Click on Add     

Click on Refresh

Copy the Public IP Address

SSH into terminal and Run these Commands:

$ sudo su
$ sudo apt update
$ cd ../..
$ docker stop statamic_app
$ docker rm statamic_app
$ docker pull cockpithq/cockpit:core-latest
$ docker run -d –name cockpit1 -p 8080:80 cockpithq/cockpit:pro-latest

Use the browser to access the application at http://”instance ip address:8080/install”

Welcome to the Cockpit Login Page, Login creds provide welcome page itself

Welcome to the Cockpit CMS

Thanks!!!!