Tim Meusel
Tim „bastelfreak“ Meusel became a Senior Automation IT Consultant in July 2021.
Previously, he worked as a DevOps Engineer for GoDaddy EMEA in Cologne, Germany, where he developed and maintained a big public cloud platform.
Tim is the driving force behind various open source projects.
He is a very active Vox Pupuli Maintainer and Project Management Committee founding member.
Tim has been doing work in the DevOps area since 2009 and began persuing Puppet solutions in 2012.
Sessions
At Config Management Camp 2025 we started the OpenVoxProject.
In the past year we worked on open source successors for Puppet Agent, Server, DB and Bolt.
We secured funding, scaled our CI infrastructure and organized our first own conference in Nürnberg!
Let us make a recap about everything we achived.
Also I want to provide an overview about upcoming topics and possible ways to engage and support the community!
- The slides are available online
- I also have a collection of my other talks at github.com/bastelfreak/talks
- I will demo the OpenBolt integration into Foreman [in the afternoon] in the Foreman Dev room(https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2026/talk/DVS97G/)
OpenBolt is a CLI application from the OpenVoxProject. It
provides different ways to run your beloved sysadmin scripts with proper
guardrails and it makes it easy to glue them together into Plans. For
years, people wanted to have a Web UI, besides the CLI, to run the
various tasks and plans. We now added a Foreman plugin, which enables
people to run everything via the Web UI or the Foreman API!
- What is OpenBolt and where does it come from?
- What are Tasks?
- What are Plans?
- How does it fit into the Foreman ecosystem?
In this talk I would like to answer those questions showcase what OpenBolt is and the benefits it provides, and also do a live demo.
The slides are available online. A collection of all my talks is at github.com/bastelfreak/talks.