Thomas Krahn
DevOps-Berater
Bargteheide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Krahn is a DevOps consultant and Kubernetes specialist with over 12 years of hands-on experience in systems, virtualization and infrastructure automation, built on a deep foundation as an Oracle DBA. He has led SRE and DevOps teams across German-scale companies and startups, driving Infrastructure-as-Code practices and automating operations with tools like Ansible—contributing improvements to Ansible’s FreeIPA modules. Based in Bargteheide, he combines low-level Linux and storage expertise with platform thinking to make clusters and datastores more resilient and repeatable. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he focuses on reducing toil through automation while keeping an operator’s perspective from his database and virtualization background.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
2007 Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung, 2007 Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung at ELAXY Format GmbH
German, English
Github Skills (11)
ansible-galaxy10
ansible-module10
freeipa10
python10
back-end-development10
ansible10
devops9
automation9
automations9
json8
github7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Nov 2016 - Apr 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 54 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the Ansible project by developing and modifying modules related to FreeIPA integration. These contributions involved fixing bugs, implementing new features, and improving existing functionality, particularly around handling HBAC rules, sudo rules, and user/group management within the IPA framework. Furthermore, the user demonstrated an understanding of Ansible's module development guidelines and worked on enhancing the modules' compatibility and efficiency. The user also addressed issues related to code duplication and improved the overall maintainability of the Ansible modules.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
Nosmoht/ansible-module-foreman
Mar 2015 - Feb 2020
Ansible module to manage configuration of Foreman
Contributions:2 releases, 334 commits, 101 PRs in 5 years
ansible-module
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