Cockpit CMS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

Cockpit CMS is an open source, headless content management system. You define your content structure in the admin interface as collections and singletons made of typed fields, manage assets in a built in file manager, and then consume everything through a documented REST and GraphQL Content API. Because it is headless it does not dictate how your site or app is built: the same content can drive a website, a mobile app, a static site generator or several frontends at once, each reading from the same API.

It is deliberately lightweight. Content is stored in a self contained file based datastore, so there is no separate database server to run or tune, and the admin interface, asset manager, user and role management and the API all ship in one small application. That makes it a practical choice for teams who want structured, reusable content and a clean editing experience without committing to a heavyweight, template driven CMS.

Common uses

• Serve structured content to a website, mobile app or static site from one API first backend
• Give editors a clean interface to manage collections, singletons and assets without touching code
• Power several frontends from a single content source using the REST and GraphQL Content API

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.