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LCM is now open source

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We have published LCM: the source code of the Community Edition is now openly available under the AGPL-3.0 – on GitHub and on our GitLab.

What is LCM?

LCM (Linux Centralized Management) is a self-hosted control center for Linux servers: one single binary, any number of servers, managed over plain SSH – no agents on the managed machines and no configuration language to learn. A traffic light shows per server whether updates are pending, CVEs have been found or a disk is filling up; server groups with rules take care of patching on schedule; every action is recorded with its full console output in a tamper-evident audit log.

An overview with screenshots is on the product page, the full documentation lives at doc.techeve.de/lcm.

Why open source?

A tool that reaches your servers over SSH deserves transparency: anyone running LCM should be able to read what it does – down to the last line. At the same time we believe an admin tool gets better when the people who use it every day can report bugs, request features and contribute.

Three channels

LCM ships in three channels from our APT repository:

  • stable – the Community Edition, every release
  • beta – pre-releases for early testing
  • enterprise – a conservative maintenance line with subscription: same features, functional updates only after a proven field phase, fixes all the faster for it

Get involved

Ideas, feature requests and bug reports are very welcome – ideally as an issue in the public repository. We discuss every proposal and report the outcome back in the issue. Code contributions are welcome too; the process is described in the CONTRIBUTING guide.

Installation takes about five minutes – the quickstart is in the documentation. We are looking forward to your feedback.

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