OliveTin

OliveTin

OliveTin is a web interface for running Linux shell commands.

For example, it can be used to turn home automation lights on or off, or start workflows in n8n.

Video demo

TODO

Screenshots

Desktop web browser;

Desktop web browser (dark mode);

Mobile screen size (responsive layout);

config.yaml example

Put this config.yaml in /etc/OliveTin/ if you're running a standard service, or mount it at /config if running in a container.

listenAddressWebUI: 0.0.0.0:1337 # Listen on all addresses available, port 1337
logLevel: "INFO"
actions: 
- title: Restart Plex
  icon: smile
  shell: docker restart plex
  
  # This will send 1 ping 
- title: Ping Google.com
  shell: ping google.com -c 1
  
  # Restart lightdm on host "overseer"
- title: restart lightdm
  icon: poop
  shell: ssh root@overseer 'service lightdm restart'

Ports

By default OliveTin will use the following ports;

• 1337 - for hosting the web interface
• 1338 - for the REST API (the api the web interface uses to do stuff)
• 1339 - a modern gRPC API (OliveTin uses protobuf under the hood)

Some people might not want the gRPC API public - simply set listenAddressGrpcActions: 127.0.0.1:1339 in your config so it doesn't listen publicly. It cannot be disabled completely - it's required for the REST API to work though.

Installation - systemd service (recommended)

Running OliveTin as a systemd service on a Linux machine is a bit more effort than running as a container - but it means it can use any program installed on your machine (you don't have to add programs to a container).

1. Copy the OliveTin binary to /usr/sbin/OliveTin
2. Copy the webui directory contents to /var/www/olivetin/ (eg, /var/www/olivetin/index.html)
3. Copy the OliveTin.service file to /etc/systemd/system/
4. Create a config.yaml using the example provided above to get you started.

Run systemctl restart OliveTin and check systemctl status OliveTin.

Installation - as a container

Of course, running a container image is very straightforward - but you might need to add files and programs to the OliveTin container to make it useful for your use case. Generally running a systemd service is better for OliveTin.

Running - podman (or docker)

root@host: podman create --name olivetin -p 1337 -p 1338 -p 1339 -v /etc/olivetin/:/config:ro olivetin

Building - buildah (or docker build)

root@host: buildah bud -t olivetin