Introduction to Vapor
What is Vapor?
Vapor is a comprehensive Linux system management platform designed to simplify server administration through a modern web interface. With its clean and intuitive design, Vapor brings together traditional system administration tools with container orchestration and Kubernetes management capabilities.
Key Features
🖥️ System Management
- Real-time Monitoring: Live CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics
- System Information: Detailed hardware and OS information
- Process Management: View and manage running processes
- Service Control: Start, stop, and manage system services
🌐 Network Administration
- Interface Management: Configure network interfaces, IP addresses, and routing
- Advanced Networking: Create and manage bridges, bonds, and VLANs
- Traffic Monitoring: Real-time network traffic visualization
- Firewall Configuration: Manage iptables rules and policies
💾 Storage Management
- Disk Management: View disk health, partitions, and usage
- LVM Support: Create and manage logical volumes
- RAID Configuration: Software RAID creation and monitoring
- Advanced Features: iSCSI, multipath, and BTRFS support
📦 Container Orchestration
- Multi-Runtime Support: Docker, containerd, and CRI-O
- Container Management: Start, stop, create, and delete containers
- Image Management: Pull, push, and manage container images
- Network and Volume Management: Docker networks and persistent storage
☸️ Kubernetes Integration
- Workload Management: Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, and more
- Helm Support: Deploy and manage Helm charts
- Resource Management: Create, update, and delete Kubernetes resources
- Log Streaming: Real-time pod logs and events
👥 User Administration
- User Management: Create, modify, and delete system users
- Group Management: Manage user groups and permissions
- Authentication: Secure JWT-based authentication
- Access Control: Role-based access control (RBAC)
🛡️ Security Features
- Secure Authentication: JWT tokens with configurable expiration
- HTTPS Support: TLS encryption for all communications
- Audit Logging: Track all administrative actions
- Session Management: Secure session handling
🔧 Developer-Friendly
- RESTful API: Complete API for automation
- WebSocket Support: Real-time data streaming
- API Documentation: Built-in OpenAPI/Swagger documentation
- Extensible Architecture: Modular design for easy extension
Why Choose Vapor?
Single Binary Deployment
Vapor is distributed as a single executable file that includes both the backend API and frontend web interface. No complex installation procedures or dependencies to manage.
Modern User Interface
The modern interface provides a familiar and intuitive experience with:
- Dark and light themes
- Responsive design for mobile devices
- Multi-language support (English and Indonesian)
- Keyboard shortcuts for power users
Comprehensive Feature Set
Unlike traditional tools that focus on specific aspects of system administration, Vapor provides a unified interface for:
- System monitoring and management
- Network configuration
- Storage administration
- Container orchestration
- Kubernetes cluster management
Real-Time Updates
WebSocket connections provide live updates for:
- System metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network)
- Log streaming
- Container events
- Kubernetes resource changes
Enterprise-Ready
- High performance Go backend
- Scalable architecture
- Production-tested components
- Active development and support
Use Cases
System Administrators
- Manage multiple Linux servers from a single interface
- Monitor system health and performance
- Quickly diagnose and resolve issues
- Automate routine tasks via API
DevOps Engineers
- Deploy and manage containerized applications
- Monitor Kubernetes clusters
- Streamline CI/CD workflows
- Integrate with existing automation tools
Cloud Engineers
- Manage cloud infrastructure
- Monitor resource utilization
- Implement security policies
- Optimize costs through better visibility
Development Teams
- Self-service container deployment
- Application monitoring and debugging
- Resource allocation and management
- Simplified access to logs and metrics
Architecture Overview
Vapor follows a modern, modular architecture:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Web Browser │
│ ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Vapor Web UI (LitElement) │ │
│ └────────────┬────────────────────┘ │
└───────────────┼─────────────────────────┘
│ HTTPS/WSS
┌───────────────▼─────────────────────────┐
│ Vapor API Server (Go) │
│ ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ REST API + WebSocket │ │
│ ├─────────────────────────────────┤ │
│ │ Authentication & Security │ │
│ ├─────────────────────────────────┤ │
│ │ Service Layer │ │
│ └────────────┬────────────────────┘ │
└───────────────┼─────────────────────────┘
│
┌───────────────▼─────────────────────────┐
│ System Resources │
│ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐ ┌────────┐ │
│ │ Linux │ │ Docker │ │ K8s │ │
│ │ System │ │ Engine │ │ Cluster│ │
│ └──────────┘ └──────────┘ └────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘Getting Started
Ready to get started with Vapor? Continue to the Installation Guide to learn how to set up Vapor on your system.