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/foreman2026 - Foreman Birthday Party 2026 talk
- 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!
- OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime (2026.09.24.1, today) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime
- OpenVoxProject/openfact (6.2.0, 1 day ago) - Community implementation of Facter
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-java_ks (v6.1.0, 1 day ago) - Uses a combination of keytool and openssl to manage entries in a Java keystore
- OpenVoxProject/clj-typesafe-config (1.0.5, 2 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/clj-typesafe-config
- OpenVoxProject/clj-i18n (1.0.6, 2 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/clj-i18n
- OpenVoxProject/jruby-utils (7.0.4, 2 days ago) - Tools for working with JRuby from Clojure
- OpenVoxProject/jruby-deps (10.1.2.0-1, 2 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/jruby-deps
- saz/puppet-ssh (v15.1.0, 3 days ago) - Puppet module to manage ssh server and client
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-metrics (2.3.3, 6 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-metrics
- OpenVoxProject/vanagon (1.3.2, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/vanagon
- 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/puppet-runtime - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxdb - clone of puppetlabs/puppetdb (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox - OpenVox is the modern open source implementation of the world's most capable configuration management platform. (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox-release-infra - Automation for signing packages and maintaining the apt/yum/downloads repos for OpenVox (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxserver-ca - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver-ca-cli (today)
- OpenVoxProject/shared-actions - org shared actions (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openfact - Community implementation of Facter (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/clj-rbac-client - clone of puppetlabs/clj-rbac-client (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/jruby-utils - Tools for working with JRuby from Clojure (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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