bastelfreak,Tim Meusel,BastelsBlog,github

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 [email protected] 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/testcontrolrepo - a nonworking controlrepo for testing
bastelfreak/clt2024 - myslides for Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2024
bastelfreak/cfgmgmtcamp2024 - My two talks for CfgMgmtCamp 2024
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 - Repo that generates my GitHub Profile
bastelfreak/puppetize2021 - My talk about open source contributions for Puppetize 2021
bastelfreak/puppetcamp2021 - My talk about scaling automation across teams

🔭 Latest releases I've contributed to

puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppetdb (v8.1.0, today) - A puppet module for installing and managing puppetdb
Icinga/puppet-icinga2 (v4.2.1, 1 week ago) - Puppet module to manage Icinga 2
puppetlabs/puppetlabs_spec_helper (v7.2.0, 2 weeks ago) - A set of shared spec helpers specific to Puppetlabs projects
voxpupuli/container-voxbox (v1.1.0, 2 weeks ago) - Vox Pupuli Test Box
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-peadm (v3.18.1, 2 weeks ago) - A Puppet module defining Bolt plans used to automate Puppet Enterprise deployments
betadots/pdc (v3.0.0, 3 weeks ago) - Puppet Development Container
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-java (v11.0.0, 3 weeks ago) - Puppet Module to manage Java
voxpupuli/container-puppetdb (v1.5.0, 3 weeks ago) - Container image for PuppetDB
voxpupuli/container-puppetserver (v1.5.0, 3 weeks ago) - Container image for Puppet Server
puppetlabs/pdk (v3.1.0, 3 weeks ago) - The shortest path to better modules: Puppet Development Kit; Download:

📜 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-unbound - Puppet module for deploying the swiss-army of DNS, Unbound (today)
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppetdb - A puppet module for installing and managing puppetdb (today)
voxpupuli/gha-puppet - Reusable workflows to run Puppet tests within GitHub Actions (today)
voxpupuli/beaker - Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness (today)
voxpupuli/puppet_metadata - The gem intends to provide an abstraction over Puppet's metadata.json file. Its API allow easy iteration over its illogical data structures. (today)
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgresql - Puppet module for managing PostgreSQL (1 day ago)
voxpupuli/voxpupuli.github.io - What this is all about. (4 days ago)
voxpupuli/puppet-zabbix - Puppet module for creating and maintaining zabbix components with puppet. (5 days ago)
voxpupuli/puppet-augeasproviders_mounttab - Augeas-based mounttab provider (5 days ago)
voxpupuli/puppet-augeasproviders_ssh - Augeas-based ssh types and providers for Puppet (5 days ago)