OliveTin

OliveTin exposes a webpage with buttons that execute shell command (eg. docker, scripts) on the server and allow others for easy access. It should be used internally only.

Installation

Download the correct file from this site. https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin/releases OliveTin_linux_amd64.deb

Go to the directory and install the package.

sudo dpkg -i OliveTin…​deb
sudo systemctl enable --now OliveTin

Configuration

The configuration file is located at /etc/OliveTin/config.yaml 

Example Configuration

listenAddressSingleHTTPFrontend: 0.0.0.0:1378 # set the port of OliveTin to 1378

# Choose from INFO (default), WARN and DEBUG
logLevel: "INFO"

# Actions (buttons) to show up on the WebUI:
actions:
  # This will run a simple script that you create.
- title: Update Music
  shell: /home/karis/scripts/script
  icon: '&#127925'

More possible configurations (many are not possible on Docker)

Execute a shell command with textbox input.

- title: Restart a Docker CT
  icon: '<img src = "icons/restart.png" width="48px" />'
  shell: docker restart {{ container }}
  arguments:
    - name: container
      type: ascii

• use {{ }} and give a variable
• under arguments type, assign a type for it, ascii only allows letters and numbers

Execute a shell command with choices

Icons Customization

The icons need to be placed in a folder in /var/www/[icon-folder]/icon.png. To use the icons, offline image or web address, it should be in HTML format. The size of 48px is the default size of OliveTin icons. Other CSS options such as style="background-color: white;" also works.

icon: '<img src = "icons/minecraft.png" size="48px" />'

Icon with emoji, to use emoji, need to use the html code. https://symbl.cc/en/emoji/

For example, ☺ 😊.

icon: "☺"