I'm Tim, former DevOps Engineer, now Senior IT Automation Consultant and Project Committee member for Vox Pupuli. I'm currently living in Cologne, Germany. I'm a regular speaker at conferences. Hit me up at tim@bastelfreak.de in case you need a Puppet consultant or want me as a speaker at your conference.
- Since the founding in 2016, I'm elected to serve in the Vox Pupuli Project Management Committee (yearly election)
- I'm active in the Puppet Community since 2014
- The puppet userbase voted for me as Puppet MVP runners up 2017, Puppet MVP 2018 and 2019
- Puppet Inc. granted me a slot in their Extraordinary Puppeteers programm
Statement from Puppet Inc.:
- bastelfreak/pumademo - minimalistic demo for puma
- bastelfreak/cfgmgmtcamp2026 -
- bastelfreak/testrepo -
- bastelfreak/puppetrun2025 - My puppet.run 2025 talk about upgrading PE
- bastelfreak/ansible2openbolt - OpenBolt examples for Ansible developers
- bastelfreak/windows -
- bastelfreak/froscon2025 - My talk about Vox Pupuli at FrOSCon
- bastelfreak/foreman2025 - My talk about migrating from PE to Foreman
- bastelfreak/puppethacks - My talk about puppet hacks nobody dares to ask for!
- bastelfreak/cfgmgmtcamp2025 - My two talks for CfgMgmtCamp 2025
- OpenVoxProject/ezbake (2.7.5, 1 day ago) - clone of puppetlabs/ezbake
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxdb (8.13.0, 1 day ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppetdb
- OpenVoxProject/openvox-server (8.13.0, 1 day ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver
- overlookinfra/foreman_openbolt (1.2.0, 4 days ago) - Bolt integration plugin for Foreman
- overlookinfra/smart_proxy_openbolt (1.2.0, 4 days ago) - Foreman Smart Proxy for Bolt integration
- OpenVoxProject/openbolt (5.5.0, 5 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/bolt
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-metrics (2.1.11, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-metrics
- OpenVoxProject/ring-middleware (2.1.8, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/ring-middleware
- OpenVoxProject/clj-http-client (2.2.8, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/clj-http-client
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-comidi-metrics (1.0.7, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-comidi-metrics
- Debug systemd and define a loglevel (4 years ago)
- systemd unit hardening followup followup (4 years ago)
- Puppet PQL Queries (4 years ago)
- PostgreSQL: Do a VACUUM FULL without exclusive locks! (4 years ago)
- systemd unit hardening followup (4 years ago)
- Migrate CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux (4 years ago)
- DNS Setup for own domains (4 years ago)
- Setup Gentoo on a Hetzner server (4 years ago)
- systemd-networkd + wireguard configuration (4 years ago)
- systemd-networkd configuration (4 years ago)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox-server - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openbolt - clone of puppetlabs/bolt (today)
- theforeman/puppet-pulpcore - Puppet module for setting up Pulp 3 as part of Katello installation (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxdb - clone of puppetlabs/puppetdb (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-certs - Puppet module for dealing with SSL certs across other modules used in Katello (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-foreman - Puppet module for Foreman (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-foreman_proxy - Puppet module for Foreman Smart Proxy (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-foreman_proxy_content - Entry point for setting up Foreman proxy + pulp (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-candlepin - Puppet modules for Candlepin (1 day ago)
- bastelfreak/talks - My collection of talks and related stuff (2 days ago)
I'm online as bastelfreak on most platforms:
If you're interested in my CV: checkout the pdf of the latext repo.
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