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/openvoxserver-ca (3.2.0, today) - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver-ca-cli
- OpenVoxProject/ezbake (2.7.4, today) - clone of puppetlabs/ezbake
- Smarteon/puppet-rclone (v0.0.3, 2 days ago) - Puppet Rclone management module
- OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime (2026.04.20.1, 3 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-authorization (2.1.8, 4 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-authorization
- OpenVoxProject/ring-middleware (2.1.6, 4 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/ring-middleware
- OpenVoxProject/clj-rbac-client (1.2.7, 4 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/clj-rbac-client
- OpenVoxProject/openvox (8.26.2, 5 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet
- overlookinfra/foreman_openbolt (1.1.1, 6 days ago) - Bolt integration plugin for Foreman
- overlookinfra/smart_proxy_openbolt (1.1.0, 1 week ago) - Foreman Smart Proxy for Bolt integration
- 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/trapperkeeper-metrics - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-metrics (today)
- OpenVoxProject/clj-rbac-client - clone of puppetlabs/clj-rbac-client (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox-server - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver (today)
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-comidi-metrics - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-comidi-metrics (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxdb - clone of puppetlabs/puppetdb (today)
- OpenVoxProject/jvm-ssl-utils - clone of puppetlabs/jvm-ssl-utils (today)
- OpenVoxProject/comidi - clone of puppetlabs/comidi (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxserver-ca - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver-ca-cli (today)
- OpenVoxProject/clj-http-client - clone of puppetlabs/clj-http-client (today)
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty10 - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty10 (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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