Libre Consulting (formerly known as Libre Solutions Pty Ltd) is a small GNU/Linux and free software consultancy based in Sydney, Australia.

Our focus is to provide services related to GNU+Linux and free software and open technologies.

Free/Libre and Open Source technologies provide strong advantages comparing to proprietary solutions.

We specialise in

  • Debian - the universal operating system.
  • GNU/Linux support, systems administratrion, automation, troubleshooting and optimisation.
  • Zabbix monitoring.
  • Scalable distributed parallel storage systems: MooseFS, GfarmFS.
  • Perl development.
  • Automation (e.g. Ansible)
  • Continuous Integration (e.g. GitLab)
  • Application Containers (e.g. Docker, Podman)
  • Vendor neutral and private clouds (e.g. Nomad, Consul)
  • Load balancing (e.g. haproxy)
  • Best practices

We have one uploading Debian Developer with us.


News: Zabbix 5.0 announcement
Posted 2020-05-19
Zabbix 3.0 announcement
Posted 2016-02-27
CiviCRM, Grafana, Zabbix
Posted 2016-02-15
Dockerising apt-cacher-ng
Posted 2015-11-07
XtreemFS trial
Posted 2015-03-19
Ceph deprecation notice
Posted 2015-01-16
Btrfs defragmentation utility
Posted 2013-12-25
Zabbix Java Gateway in Debian
Posted 2013-12-04
Location of Zabbix Server
Posted 2013-12-03
GnuCash friendly accountants
Posted 2013-03-19
Bad hardware
Posted 2013-03-17
mdadm advantages
Posted 2013-03-12
RAID-5 considered harmful
Posted 2012-12-12
XFS: quick review
Posted 2012-11-11
ext4: external journal caveats
Posted 2012-10-16
ext4: quick review
Posted 2012-10-13
Hardware RAID disadvantages
Posted 2012-06-06
Btrfs: first try
Posted 2011-09-21
NILFS2: quick review
Posted 2011-09-21
AHCI and system's stability
Posted 2011-08-11