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/openvox (9.0.0-alpha1, 3 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet
- OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime (2026.05.20.1, 4 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime
- choria-io/go-choria (v0.30.0, 1 week ago) - Backplane Development Framework and Server hosting Choria Agents, Networks, Federations and Streaming Data
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-webserver (12.0.2, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty10
- OpenVoxProject/ezbake (2.7.7, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/ezbake
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper (5.0.1, 1 week ago) - A services framework for Clojure / JVM applications. - fork of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-scheduler (1.4.0, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-scheduler
- OpenVoxProject/clj-shell-utils (2.2.0, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/clj-shell-utils
- OpenVoxProject/jruby-utils (5.4.0, 1 week ago) - Tools for working with JRuby from Clojure
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-filesystem-watcher (1.6.0, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-filesystem-watcher
- 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/openvoxdb - clone of puppetlabs/puppetdb (today)
- saz/puppet-ssh - Puppet module to manage ssh server and client (2 days ago)
- bastelfreak/talks - My collection of talks and related stuff (2 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/container-openvoxserver - Container builds for the OpenVox server (2 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/shared-actions - org shared actions (4 days ago)
- choria-io/puppet-choria - Module to install and manage Choria (4 days ago)
- theforeman/puppet-puppet - Puppet module for Puppet client and server (4 days ago)
- theforeman/puppet-dhcp - ISC DHCP server module for Puppet (4 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/openbolt - clone of puppetlabs/bolt (4 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/ezbake - clone of puppetlabs/ezbake (4 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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