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/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
🔭 Latest releases I've contributed to
- OpenVoxProject/openvox (8.26.1, 1 day ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet
- OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime (2026.04.15.1, 1 day ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-authorization (2.1.7, 3 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-authorization
- OpenVoxProject/jruby-utils (5.3.7, 3 days ago) - Tools for working with JRuby from Clojure
- OpenVoxProject/jruby-deps (9.4.12.1-3, 3 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/jruby-deps
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty10 (1.1.5, 3 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty10
- OpenVoxProject/trapperkeeper (4.3.4, 4 days ago) - A services framework for Clojure / JVM applications. - fork of puppetlabs/trapperkeeper
- OpenVoxProject/ring-middleware (2.1.5, 4 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/ring-middleware
- OpenVoxProject/clj-http-client (2.2.5, 4 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/clj-http-client
- OpenVoxProject/clj-kitchensink (3.5.6, 4 days ago) - Library of utility functions for clojure
📜 My recent blog posts
- 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)
The last 10 repositories I contributed to
- OpenVoxProject/openbolt - clone of puppetlabs/bolt (today)
- overlookinfra/foreman_openbolt - Bolt integration plugin for Foreman (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/ezbake - clone of puppetlabs/ezbake (2 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox-docs - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-docs (2 days ago)
- betadots/slides - betadots conference slides (2 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/ring-middleware - clone of puppetlabs/ring-middleware (3 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/jruby-utils - Tools for working with JRuby from Clojure (3 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/clj-http-client - clone of puppetlabs/clj-http-client (3 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/jruby-deps - clone of puppetlabs/jruby-deps (3 days ago)
- OpenVoxProject/dujour-version-check - clone of puppetlabs/dujour-version-check (3 days ago)
👥 Check out some of my recent followers
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📫 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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