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/openfact (5.6.0, today) - Community implementation of Facter
- OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime (2026.04.05.1, 4 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm (v3.37.0, 1 week ago) - A Puppet module defining Bolt plans used to automate Puppet Enterprise deployments
- xeger/backticks (v1.0.6, 1 month ago) - Intuitive OOP wrapper for command-line processes; uses PTY to avoid buffering.
- puppetlabs/forge-ruby (v6.2.0, 1 month ago) - Ruby client for the Puppet Forge API
- OpenVoxProject/openbolt (5.4.0, 1 month ago) - clone of puppetlabs/bolt
- overlookinfra/foreman_openbolt (1.0.0, 1 month ago) - Bolt integration plugin for Foreman
- OpenVoxProject/clj-rbac-client (1.2.6, 1 month ago) - clone of puppetlabs/clj-rbac-client
- OpenVoxProject/clj-typesafe-config (1.0.2, 1 month ago) - clone of puppetlabs/clj-typesafe-config
- betadots/hdm (v4.1.0, 1 month ago) - The Hiera Data Manager (HDM) is a Web UI to visualize Hiera data and make it searchable!
- 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/puppet-runtime - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openfact - Community implementation of Facter (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox - clone of puppetlabs/puppet (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/ezbake - clone of puppetlabs/ezbake (1 day ago)
- overlookinfra/foreman_openbolt - Bolt integration plugin for Foreman (1 day ago)
- betadots/hdm - The Hiera Data Manager (HDM) is a Web UI to visualize Hiera data and make it searchable! (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/shared-actions - org shared actions (4 days ago)
- overlookinfra/smart_proxy_openbolt - Foreman Smart Proxy for Bolt integration (1 week ago)
- betadots/slides - betadots conference slides (1 week ago)
- bastelfreak/testcontrolrepo - a nonworking controlrepo for testing (3 weeks 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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