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/structured-logging (1.0.3, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/structured-logging
- OpenVoxProject/stockpile (1.0.3, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/stockpile
- OpenVoxProject/openvox-server (9.0.0-beta5, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-comidi-metrics (1.1.1, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-comidi-metrics
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-metrics (2.3.2, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-metrics
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-status (1.5.1, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-status
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-scheduler (1.4.1, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-scheduler
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-authorization (2.4.1, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-authorization
- OpenVoxProject/clj-shell-utils (2.2.1, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/clj-shell-utils
- OpenVoxProject/jruby-utils (7.0.2, 1 week ago) - Tools for working with JRuby from Clojure
- 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)
- theforeman/puppet-certs - Puppet module for dealing with SSL certs across other modules used in Katello (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-candlepin - Puppet modules for Candlepin (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-puppetserver_foreman - Puppet module for managing Foreman integration in Puppetserver (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-katello - Puppet module for setting Katello specific configuration. Also includes provider for manipulating with Katello resources. (1 day ago)
- theforeman/foreman-installer-modulesync - Standard config files used across foreman-installer modules (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-foreman_proxy_content - Entry point for setting up Foreman proxy + pulp (1 day ago)
- theforeman/kafo_module_lint - Validate Puppet modules are correctly documented for Kafo (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-pulpcore - Puppet module for setting up Pulp 3 as part of Katello installation (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-dhcp - ISC DHCP server module for Puppet (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-dns - Installs and manages an ISC BIND DNS server with zones (1 day ago)
I'm online as bastelfreak on most platforms:
If you're interested in my CV: checkout the pdf of the latext repo.
Want your own awesome profile page? Check out the original author markscribe or the version from RaphaΓ«l!







