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!
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-java (v12.2.0, today) - Puppet Module to manage Java
- OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime (2026.10.15.1, 4 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppet-runtime
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxdb (9.1.0, 5 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppetdb
- OpenVoxProject/openvox-server (9.1.0, 5 days ago) - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver
- WinRb/WinRM (v2.4.2, 6 days ago) - Ruby library for Windows Remote Management
- OpenVoxProject/openvox (8.31.0, 6 days ago) - OpenVox is the modern open source implementation of the world's most capable configuration management platform.
- OpenVoxProject/ezbake (4.2.1, 1 week ago) - clone of puppetlabs/ezbake
- OpenVoxProject/openfact (5.7.2, 1 week ago) - Community implementation of Facter
- choria-io/go-choria (v0.30.3, 2 weeks ago) - Backplane Development Framework and Server hosting Choria Agents, Networks, Federations and Streaming Data
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-java_ks (v6.1.0, 3 weeks ago) - Uses a combination of keytool and openssl to manage entries in a Java keystore
- 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-dhcp - ISC DHCP server module for Puppet (today)
- theforeman/puppet-foreman_proxy - Puppet module for Foreman Smart Proxy (today)
- theforeman/puppet-puppetserver_foreman - Puppet module for managing Foreman integration in Puppetserver (today)
- theforeman/puppet-puppet - Puppet module for Puppet client and server (today)
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-java - Puppet Module to manage Java (1 day ago)
- choria-io/puppet-mcollective - A Puppet module to manage MCollective (1 day ago)
- pcfens/puppet-filebeat - (1 day ago)
- theforeman/puppet-foreman - Puppet module for Foreman (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/openvoxdb - clone of puppetlabs/puppetdb (1 day ago)
- OpenVoxProject/openvox-server - clone of puppetlabs/puppetserver (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.
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