For example, if I want a website where users can I signin to choose options such as changing or restarting a Docker container. Or various other systems level options available from a web interface.
I’m looking for something in the cloud but also something self hosted at home.
This sounds exactly like what Cockpit was made to do…
100%, Cockpit is what you’re looking for OP.
Too many features. I should have mentioned that I want it very limited. For example, to give to clients to restart game servers.
Edit: Cockpit is great! But to give remote access to full user-level shell access is not something I want. It might have access to other features I would want to avoid like installing software. Instead I want strictly it to commands like,
You’re better off telling us the problem you’re trying to solve than come to us with a solution to something we have no idea about.
If you describe the problem first, we might have a better idea than a web shell, which in all honesty is a bad idea.
This. Sounds like a classic example of the XY Problem
You don’t have to use all the features. Restarting a service is a pretty broad feature. If it’s too broad, You will likely have to code something yourself.
What does that even mean? Are you looking for a bespoke system that does exactly what you want and nothing else?
Just host a webpage with 7 buttons triggering off your shell scripts.
Pterodactyl or Pelican if what you might want if you are looking to give tenants access to game servers on your own infrastructure.
https://pelican.dev/
https://pterodactyl.io/