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2. Watch your thread get no response or interest from anybody.
3. Give up on HN and go build your own solution.
4. When it's ready, submit it to HN to help others in your situation.
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Haha, now I'm worried that this is going to happen to me. I'm looking for a production-ready Terraform/CloudWatch project for Rails + Sidekiq: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16447092
If I can't find anything, I'm going to build it myself. (And I'm going to add Cockpit to my servers.)
Yeah, getting Webmin security right is possible but very challenging. Whenever I'm doing a security assessment at a client and I see traffic to/from servers on port 10000 I always make a note that there's probably some vulnerabilities there that our pentest guys will want to explore.
I have no idea if Cockpit is any more secure, but Webmin does have its fair share of security issues.
Personally, no, i don't want a webserver managing my servers. But i surely hope not the same mistakes or security issues arise that happened for webmin.