Hi there! 
I'm Tim, a DevOps Engineer and Project Committee member for Vox Pupuli. I'm currently living in Cologne, Germany, where I currently study computer sience for fun in evening classes. Hit me up at tim@bastelfreak.de in case you need a Puppet consultant.
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/.github -
- bastelfreak/puppetize2021 - My talk about open source contributions for Puppetize 2021
- bastelfreak/puppetcamp2021 - My talk about scaling automation across teams
- bastelfreak/shiny-barnacle - A simple Sinatra (Ruby) application to store data from an online form (shiny-barnacle was the suggested tile from GitHub)
- 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!
- bastelfreak/puppetdocs - Ultimate puppet walkthrough guide! (in German)
- bastelfreak/cfgmgmtcamp2020 - Automating the Vox Pupuli Yak Shaving - Talk from Flipez and bastelfreak
- bastelfreak/prometheusdemo - My talk + demo about scaleable node_exporter rollout with Puppet
- bastelfreak/osad2019 - My Open Source Automation Days 2019 talk
🔭 Latest releases I've contributed to
- voxpupuli/puppetboard (v4.0.3, 1 day ago) - Web frontend for PuppetDB
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgresql (v8.1.0, 1 week ago) - Puppet module for managing PostgreSQL
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib (v8.4.0, 1 week ago) - Puppet Labs Standard Library module
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-satellite_pe_tools (v4.0.2, 1 week ago) -
- emancu/toml-rb (v2.2.0, 2 weeks ago) - A parser for TOML using Citrus library.
- Icinga/puppet-icinga2 (v3.4.0, 1 month ago) - Puppet module to manage Icinga 2
- choria-io/go-choria (v0.26.0, 1 month ago) - Backplane Development Framework and Server hosting Choria Agents, Networks, Federations and Streaming Data
- choria-io/puppet-choria (0.28.1, 1 month ago) - Module to install and manage Choria
- choria-io/puppet-mcollective (0.14.2, 1 month ago) - A Puppet module to manage MCollective
- puppetlabs/puppetlabs-docker (v4.4.0, 1 month ago) - The Puppet Docker repository
📜 My recent blog posts
- Debug systemd and define a loglevel (5 months ago)
- systemd unit hardening followup followup (6 months ago)
- Puppet PQL Queries (6 months ago)
- PostgreSQL: Do a VACUUM FULL without exclusive locks! (6 months ago)
- systemd unit hardening followup (6 months ago)
- Migrate CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux (6 months ago)
- DNS Setup for own domains (6 months ago)
- Setup Gentoo on a Hetzner server (6 months ago)
- systemd-networkd + wireguard configuration (6 months ago)
- systemd-networkd configuration (6 months ago)
The last 10 repositories I contributed to
- voxpupuli/vox-pupuli-tasks - Community tool to manage open PRs for puppet modules (today)
- voxpupuli/beaker - Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness (2 days ago)
- voxpupuli/voxpupuli.github.io - What this is all about. (3 days ago)
- voxpupuli/puppet-mumble - Puppet module to install and manage a Mumble server (4 days ago)
- voxpupuli/puppet-augeasproviders_pam - Augeas-based PAM type and provider for Puppet (1 week ago)
- voxpupuli/puppet-lldpd - Module to manage lldpd package, service and facts (1 week ago)
- voxpupuli/facterdb - A Database of OS facts provided by Facter (1 week ago)
- voxpupuli/puppet-chrony - Puppet module for Chrony with Systemd (1 week ago)
- voxpupuli/voxpupuli-test - Gem with Voxpupuli test helper code (1 week ago)
- voxpupuli/puppet-python - Puppet module for installing and managing Python, pip, virtualenvs and Gunicorn virtual hosts. (1 week 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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