OliveTin on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

OliveTin gives you a clean web interface of buttons, where each button runs one predefined shell command that you have approved in advance. Instead of granting people SSH access to run ad hoc commands, an administrator defines a curated set of actions in a single configuration file, and users simply click to run them and watch the live output. It is ideal for letting less technical users, or your future self, safely trigger routine operations: restart a service, check disk space, ping a host, kick off a backup, run a playbook, from a phone or a browser.

Actions can prompt for inputs constrained to fixed choices, be grouped into dashboards, run on a schedule or a webhook, and stream their output back to the page. Because every button is a command running on the server, the whole value of OliveTin depends on it being locked down, which is exactly how cloudimg ships it.

Common uses

• Safe button driven access to routine server commands
• Letting non technical users trigger approved operations
• Home lab and devops automation without shell access

See it running

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