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/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
- bastelfreak/puppetrun -
- OpenVoxProject/clj-http-client (2.1.5, today) - clone of puppetlabs/clj-http-client
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper (4.1.1, today) - A services framework for Clojure / JVM applications. - fork of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper
- OpenVoxProject/clj-parent (7.5.0, today) - A clojure project that defines version numbers for common dependencies
- OpenVoxProject/clj-kitchensink (3.4.2, today) - Library of utility functions for clojure
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgresql (v10.6.1, 5 days ago) - Puppet module for managing PostgreSQL
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm (v3.34.0, 1 week ago) - A Puppet module defining Bolt plans used to automate Puppet Enterprise deployments
- OpenVoxProject/openbolt (5.3.0, 2 weeks ago) - clone of puppetlabs/bolt
- OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime (2025.12.15.1, 2 weeks ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime
- OpenVoxProject/openvox (8.24.2, 2 weeks ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet
- OpenVoxProject/openfact (5.2.1, 2 weeks ago) - Community implementation of Facter
- Debug systemd and define a loglevel (3 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)
- betadots/hdm - The Hiera Data Manager (HDM) is a Web UI to visualize Hiera data and make it searchable! (2 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/container-openvoxdb - Container builds for the OpenVox DB (3 days ago)
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgresql - Puppet module for managing PostgreSQL (5 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox - clone of puppetlabs/puppet (1 week ago)
- theforeman/puppetdb_foreman - PuppetDB proxy in Foreman (1 week ago)
- choria-io/website - Docs for choria found at choria.io (1 week ago)
- southalc/podman - Puppet module for podman (1 week ago)
- OpenVoxProject/clj-http-client - clone of puppetlabs/clj-http-client (1 week ago)
- overlookinfra/foreman_openbolt - Bolt integration plugin for Foreman (2 weeks ago)
- theforeman/foreman-installer - Automated Foreman installation and configuration (2 weeks ago)
I'm online as bastelfreak on most platforms:
https://twitter.com/BastelsBlog
https://blog.bastelfreak.de
Puppet Community, Kubernetes
If you're interested in my CV: checkout the pdf of the latext repo.
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