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/openvox-server (8.18.0, today) - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxdb (8.18.0, today) - clone of puppetlabs/puppetdb
- OpenVoxProject/openvox (8.32.0, today) - OpenVox is the modern open source implementation of the world's most capable configuration management platform.
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-authorization (2.5.0, today) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-authorization
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm (v3.39.0, today) - A Puppet module defining Bolt plans used to automate Puppet Enterprise deployments
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-webserver (12.2.0, today) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty10
- choria-io/choria-mcorpc-support (2.28.0, 1 day ago) - Support libraries to enable Ruby agents and clients to communicate with the Choria Server
- OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime (2026.10.28.1, 6 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgresql (v10.8.0, 1 week ago) - Puppet module for managing PostgreSQL
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache (v13.5.0, 1 week ago) - Puppet module for the Apache httpd server, maintained by Puppet, Inc.
- 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/openvoxdb - clone of puppetlabs/puppetdb (today)
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-metrics - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-metrics (today)
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-webserver - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty10 (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox-sbom-tools - Tooling for generating and manipulating Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) for OpenVox projects. (today)
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxserver-ca - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver-ca-cli (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox - OpenVox is the modern open source implementation of the world's most capable configuration management platform. (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/openfact - Community implementation of Facter (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime (3 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/openbolt - clone of puppetlabs/bolt (5 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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