Install Cockpit on CentOS 7/8

First, you need the might EPEL Release repo:

yum install epel-release
yum install cockpit

Then, you need to enable Cockpit with the systemctl

systemctl start cockpit
​systemctl enable cockpit.socket

Then add Cockpit to the firewall exceptions

sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit
​sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit --permanent
​sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Cockpit is located at port 9090