Helmut Thurnhofer

Infrastructure · Automation · Platform Engineering

Experience with enterprise infrastructures, cloud platforms, and automation.

Profile

My professional background lies in traditional system and network administration in Microsoft environments. Over the years, Linux, cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps became part of my work. Today, I benefit from knowing both worlds: stable enterprise infrastructures as well as modern platforms and automation.

Areas of Expertise

  • Automation & Infrastructure as Code Terragrunt, Terraform, Ansible, Vagrant, Packer, CI/CD
  • Enterprise & System Engineering Windows & Linux Server, Networking, Virtualization
  • Monitoring & Observability Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alerting
  • Security & Identity Hardening, PKI, TLS, Certificates, Active Directory, Vault, Keycloak
Areas of Expertise

Selected Projects

BinHarbor

Manage and update local Linux binaries

Built from the need to centrally track locally installed CLI tools and make updates easier to manage and follow.

Python · Linux · JSON · GitHub
BinHarbor on GitHub →

Kubernetes Test Environment

Local Platform for Kubernetes and GitOps Experiments

A test environment for exploring ingress, PKI, monitoring, storage, and modern deployment workflows.

Kubernetes · k3d · Helm · GitOps · PKI
Kubernetes Environment on GitHub →

Linux Automation

Reproducible Linux Systems Instead of Manual Installation

Automated provisioning of Linux test systems using reproducible images and configurations.

Packer · Vagrant · Ansible · Linux
Linux Automation on GitHub →

Fedora CoreOS Test Environment

Immutable Infrastructure and Automated Provisioning

A test environment for declarative system configuration, reproducible images, and automated system deployment.

Fedora CoreOS · Butane · Ignition · Packer
Fedora CoreOS on GitHub →

Prometheus / Grafana Monitoring Environment

Centralized Monitoring and Observability Platform

An environment for collecting, visualizing, and alerting on technical system metrics.

Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · Alertmanager
Monitoring-Environment on GitHub →

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