Hi there! 
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.
Puppet activities
- 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.:
🌱 Check out what I'm currently working on
- bastelfreak/Spacegray.vim - copy of https://github.com/ajh17/Spacegray.vim.git
- bastelfreak/scale20x - My talk about Vox Pupuli at Scale20x
- bastelfreak/puppet-ivanti - A Puppet module to install Ivanti agent on Linux
- bastelfreak/cfgmgmtcamp2023 - My talk about open source contributions for Puppetize 2021
- bastelfreak/.github -
- bastelfreak/puppetize2021 - My talk about open source contributions for Puppetize 2021
- bastelfreak/puppetcamp2021 - My talk about scaling automation across teams
- bastelfreak/fluent-bit-pkgbuild - AUR package for fluent-bit
- bastelfreak/puppetcamp2020 - My talk about managing > 130 modules at Vox Pupuli with modulesync!
- bastelfreak/env2module-differ - Check your Puppet environments against metadata.json files from all modules!
🔭 Latest releases I've contributed to
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib (v9.4.0, today) - Puppet Labs Standard Library module
- puppetlabs/influxdb (v2.4.0, 4 days ago) -
- puppetlabs/puppet_operational_dashboards (v2.1.0, 4 days ago) -
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs_spec_helper (v6.0.2, 4 days ago) - A set of shared spec helpers specific to Puppetlabs projects
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache (v11.1.0, 4 days ago) - Puppet module for the Apache httpd server, maintained by Puppet, Inc.
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppet_agent (v4.15.0, 1 week ago) - Module for managing Puppet-Agent
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-lvm (v2.1.0, 1 week ago) - Puppet Module to manage LVM
- choria-io/puppet-mcollective (0.14.4, 1 week ago) - A Puppet module to manage MCollective
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm (v3.14.0, 2 weeks ago) - A Puppet module defining Bolt plans used to automate Puppet Enterprise deployments
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-firewall (v7.0.2, 2 weeks ago) - Puppet Firewall Module
📜 My recent blog posts
- Debug systemd and define a loglevel (2 years ago)
- systemd unit hardening followup followup (2 years ago)
- Puppet PQL Queries (2 years ago)
- PostgreSQL: Do a VACUUM FULL without exclusive locks! (2 years ago)
- systemd unit hardening followup (2 years ago)
- Migrate CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux (2 years ago)
- DNS Setup for own domains (2 years ago)
- Setup Gentoo on a Hetzner server (2 years ago)
- systemd-networkd + wireguard configuration (2 years ago)
- systemd-networkd configuration (2 years ago)
The last 10 repositories I contributed to
- voxpupuli/puppet-ipset - Puppet module to manage ipset tooling and actual sets (1 day ago)
- voxpupuli/beaker-hostgenerator - (1 day ago)
- betadots/pdc - Puppet Development Container (1 day ago)
- voxpupuli/puppet-letsencrypt - A Puppet module to install the Letsencrypt client and request certificates. (2 days ago)
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgresql - Puppet module for managing PostgreSQL (2 days ago)
- voxpupuli/beaker-hcloud - Hetzner Cloud hypervisor library for beaker (3 days ago)
- voxpupuli/beaker-vmware - Vmware hypervisor library for beaker (3 days ago)
- betadots/foreman_hdm - (4 days ago)
- voxpupuli/puppet-borg - Puppet module to deploy borgbackup with helpful CLI wrappers for backup & restore (4 days ago)
- voxpupuli/voxpupuli.github.io - What this is all about. (1 week ago)
👥 Check out some of my recent followers
jesopo
shoddyguard
dhikrahashim
Neustradamus
Ph0B1uSTop languages
📫 How to reach me
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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