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 [email protected] 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/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
- bastelfreak/puppetrun -
- bastelfreak/petuning -
- OpenVoxProject/openvox (8.24.2, today) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet
- OpenVoxProject/openfact (5.2.1, today) - Community implementation of Facter
- OpenVoxProject/container-openvoxdb (v1.1.0, today) - Container builds for the OpenVox DB
- puppetlabs/forge-ruby (v6.1.0, 3 days ago) - Ruby client for the Puppet Forge API
- OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime (2025.12.09.1, 6 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime
- puppetlabs/puppet_operational_dashboards (v3.0.0, 1 week ago) -
- puppetlabs/influxdb (v3.0.0, 1 week ago) -
- betadots/hdm (v4.0.0, 2 weeks ago) - The Hiera Data Manager (HDM) is a Web UI to visualize Hiera data and make it searchable!
- overlookinfra/smart_proxy_openbolt (0.1.1, 2 weeks ago) - Foreman Smart Proxy for Bolt integration
- OpenVoxProject/openbolt (5.2.0, 3 weeks ago) - clone of puppetlabs/bolt
- Debug systemd and define a loglevel (3 years ago)
- systemd unit hardening followup followup (3 years ago)
- Puppet PQL Queries (3 years ago)
- PostgreSQL: Do a VACUUM FULL without exclusive locks! (3 years ago)
- systemd unit hardening followup (3 years ago)
- Migrate CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux (3 years ago)
- DNS Setup for own domains (3 years ago)
- Setup Gentoo on a Hetzner server (3 years ago)
- systemd-networkd + wireguard configuration (4 years ago)
- systemd-networkd configuration (4 years ago)
- theforeman/puppet-puppet - Puppet module for Puppet client and server (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox - clone of puppetlabs/puppet (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxserver-ca - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver-ca-cli (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxdb - clone of puppetlabs/puppetdb (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openbolt - clone of puppetlabs/bolt (today)
- OpenVoxProject/shared-actions - org shared actions (today)
- OpenVoxProject/vanagon - clone of puppetlabs/vanagon (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox-release - clone of puppetlabs/puppetlabs-release (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openfact - Community implementation of Facter (today)
- overlookinfra/foreman_openbolt - Bolt integration plugin for Foreman (today)
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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