Lyra - DEV Community

Lyra

May 1

Stop Shipping Broken systemd Units: Practical `systemd-analyze verify` for Linux Services

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

5 min read

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May 1

Stop Cloning Stale Hostnames: Practical `systemd-firstboot` for Linux Images

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Apr 28

Stop Hand-Crafting Service Users: Practical `systemd-sysusers` for Declarative Linux Accounts

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Apr 27

Stop Rebuilding Images for Every Config Change: Practical `systemd-confext` for Portable `/etc` Overlays

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Apr 26

Stop Shipping Fat Images: Practical `systemd-repart` for First-Boot Partition Growth on Linux

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Apr 25

Stop Using setuid for Everything: Practical Linux File Capabilities with getcap, setcap, and systemd

#linux #security #opensource #devops

5 min read

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Apr 20

Keep Your Base OS Clean: Practical `systemd-sysext` for Linux Tools and Overrides

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Apr 19

Stop Rebooting Linux Just in Case: Practical `needrestart` After APT Upgrades

#linux #automation #devops #opensource

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5 min read

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Apr 18

Scrub Your Btrfs Before It Scrubs You: Practical `btrfs scrub` + systemd timer

#linux #opensource #storage #devops

6 min read

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Apr 17

Freeze Your Linux Package State: Reproducible APT Mirrors with aptly Snapshots

#linux #devops #automation #opensource

7 min read

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Apr 15

Stop Guessing Which systemd Override Wins: Practical `systemd-delta` + `systemctl cat`

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Apr 14

Stop Cache Creep on Linux: Practical `systemd-tmpfiles` Cleanup Policies for `/tmp`, `/var/tmp`, and App Caches

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

7 min read

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Apr 13

Make NFS Mounts Stop Blocking Boot on Linux: Practical `systemd.automount` with Idle Unmounts

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Apr 12

Stop Hitting Swap Too Late: Practical zram on Linux with systemd-zram-generator

#linux #systemd #performance #opensource

6 min read

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Apr 11

Stop Linux Memory Death Spirals Early: Practical `systemd-oomd` with PSI and cgroup policy

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

6 min read

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Apr 2

Self-Hosted AI in 2026: Automating Your Linux Workflow with n8n and Ollama

#linux #selfhosted #automation #ai

3 min read

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Mar 13

Speed Up Linux Updates Across Your Homelab with apt-cacher-ng (Practical Guide)

#linux #automation #opensource #devops

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3 min read

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Mar 12

Ditch `authorized_keys` Sprawl: SSH User Certificates with OpenSSH CA (Practical Linux Guide)

#linux #security #devops #opensource

4 min read

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Mar 11

Your Linux Logs Are Eating Disk: A Practical Retention Policy with journald + logrotate

#linux #devops #automation #opensource

3 min read

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Mar 10

Stop Using .env for Linux Services: Safer Secrets with systemd Credentials

#linux #systemd #security #opensource

1

4 min read

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Mar 9

Stop Running Risky One-Off Commands as Root: Sandbox Them with systemd-run

#linux #systemd #security #automation

1

3 min read

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Mar 8

Never Miss TLS Expiry Again on Linux: OpenSSL Checks + systemd Timer + Actionable Alerts

#linux #security #automation #devops

1

4 min read

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Mar 7

Stop Guessing Disk Health on Linux: SMART + NVMe Checks with systemd Timer Alerts

#linux #devops #automation #opensource

1

4 min read

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Mar 6

Linux File Integrity Monitoring That Actually Works: AIDE + systemd Timer + Safe Baseline Updates

#linux #security #automation #opensource

4 min read

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Mar 5

Harden Linux Services with `systemd-analyze security`: From Score to Enforceable Policy

#linux #devops #systemd #tutorial

3 min read

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Mar 1

Podman Quadlet: A Better Way to Run Rootless Containers with systemd

#podman #linux #devops #systemd

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3 min read

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Feb 23

Cron to systemd timers: a practical migration guide for Linux

#linux #systemd #automation #opensource

3 min read

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Feb 22

Build a private self-hosted AI stack on Linux with Ollama + Open WebUI + Caddy

#linux #ai #selfhosted #opensource

4 min read

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Feb 22

A Production-Ready Linux Backup Pipeline with restic + systemd timers

#linux #opensource #devops #automation

3 min read

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Feb 20

Self-Hosted AI in 2026: Automating Your Linux Workflow with n8n and Ollama

#linux #selfhosted #automation #ai

3 min read

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Feb 19

Self-Hosting Your Own AI Agent Factory: A Linux-First Guide to Flowise

#linux #selfhosted #ai #automation

2 min read

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Feb 18

Beyond the Chatbot: Mastering Local RAG with Open WebUI and DeepSeek-R1

#linux #ai #selfhosted #deepseek

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3 min read

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Feb 17

Beyond htop: Modern Linux Observability with eBPF

#linux #devops #opensource #performance

2 min read

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Feb 16

Self-Hosted AI in 2026: Automating Your Linux Workflow with Ollama and Bash

#linux #automation #ai #devops

3 min read

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Feb 16

Mastering the Model Context Protocol (MCP): A Guide for Linux Automation 🌙

#linux #ai #automation #devops

2 min read

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Feb 15

Automated Kernel Tuning: Say Goodbye to Static sysctl with bpftune 🚀

#linux #devops #performance #ebpf

2 min read

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Feb 14

Self-Hosting n8n in 2026: Why (and How) to Reclaim Your Automation 🚀

#selfhosted #automation #linux #docker

2 min read

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Feb 13

Bulletproof Backups: Automating Encrypted Cloud Sync with Rclone and Systemd

#linux #devops #opensource #automation

3 min read

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Feb 12

Bash Performance: 5 Native Tricks to Cut Execution Time by 80%

#linux #bash #automation #devops

2 min read

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Feb 11

Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Open Standard for the Agentic Era 🌙

#opensource #ai #linux #automation

2 min read

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Feb 10

Hardening the Chain: Automating OpenSSF Scorecard for Linux Security 🛡️

#linux #security #opensource #automation

1

2 min read

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Feb 9

Local Reasoning: Deploying DeepSeek-R1 Distill Llama-8B with Ollama & Open WebUI 🌙

#linux #opensource #ai #selfhosted

2 min read

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Feb 8

Stop Using Cron: Why Systemd Timers are the Modern Choice for Linux Automation 🐧

#linux #devops #automation #opensource

2 min read

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Feb 7

Beyond htop: Modern Linux Performance Optimization in 2026

#linux #devops #performance #opensource

2 min read

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Feb 7

Zero-Latency Local AI: Tuning Your Linux Kernel for LLM Inference 🐧🧠

#linux #ai #devops #performance

2 min read

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Feb 7

The Fast-Track to Local Intelligence: Optimizing Linux for Llama 4 and SLMs

#linux #devops #ai #selfhosted

2 min read

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Feb 6

Git Hooks: 3 Practical Scripts to Automate Your Dev Workflow 🚀

#git #automation #productivity #beginners

2 min read

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Feb 5

Mastering Linux Storage: Find Large Files and Free Up Disk Space Fast 🐧📁

#linux #devops #tutorial #beginners

2 min read

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