Supervisor-Worker Agents for Ticket Triage
Route support tickets with a supervisor that classifies and workers that act, so each ticket has one owner and a recorded handoff on your VPS.
AI Agents8 min read
NetBay journal
Guides for operators
Practical guides for Linux, containers, CI/CD, self-hosting, and running VPS infrastructure from Netbay Engineering.
599 articles · 24 topics
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Linux Users, Groups, and File Permissions: chmod, chown, umask
Understand Linux permission bits, ownership, group-based access control, and how umask shapes default file modes.
Linux7 min read
Environments and Protection Rules in GitHub Actions
Use GitHub Actions environments to gate production deploys behind required reviewers, wait timers, branch restrictions and isolated environment secrets.
GitHub7 min read
REST vs GraphQL: A Pragmatic Decision Guide
REST stays the right default for most services, but GraphQL earns its keep in specific cases. A concrete decision framework for choosing between them.
API & Automation6 min read
Ansible Variables, Facts, and Conditionals Explained
Use Ansible variables, auto-gathered facts, and when conditions to tune one playbook so it runs correctly across every host in your fleet.
API & Automation7 min read
CPU Embeddings with Sentence Transformers
Encode docs on CPU with MiniLM or llama.cpp, normalize 384-d vectors, and keep embeddings on one Lucknow VPS instead of a billed embedding API.
AI Infrastructure8 min read
Installing and Tuning fail2ban on a Linux VPS
Set up fail2ban to auto-ban brute-force sources across SSH, web, and mail, then tune jails, bantimes, and notifications for real-world traffic.
Linux Security6 min read
Debian 13 Trixie: Conservative Defaults and apt Best Practices
Debian 13 trixie behaves like the Debian you already trust: security suite, backports, pinning, and apt habits that keep a conservative server boring.
Linux7 min read
Multi-Stage Builds: Slash Your Final Image Size
Use multi-stage Dockerfiles to compile in one layer and copy only the runtime artifacts forward — image sizes drop from gigabytes to tens of megabytes.
Containers6 min read
Automating GitHub Issues: Templates, Labels, and Triage Bots
Standard templates, reusable labels, and a little triage bot turn a noisy public issue queue into an actionable backlog, and nothing real slips through.
GitHub7 min read
Setting Up Nextcloud for File Sync and Backup
Deploy Nextcloud with Docker Compose to self-host file sync and backup, then tune clients, cron jobs, caching, and storage backups on your VPS.
Self-Hosting8 min read
Installing a Single-Node Kubernetes Cluster with k3s on a VPS
Install k3s on a single VPS node to get a working Kubernetes cluster in minutes, then verify nodes, pods, and kubectl access.
Kubernetes6 min read