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Craig Dunn

crayfishx
Málaga, Spain

About Me

Hi, I'm Craig, a systems engineer and developer with over 20 years working with and contributing to open source software. I'm particularly focused in the DevOps space and have been heavily involved in developing, contributing and conceptualising projects to provide configuration management solutions to help individuals and organisations automate their infrastructure.

These days I split my time between consulting, training courses and open source work.

Over the past ten years I've been deeply involved in the Puppet community, back in 2012 I wrote a blog post detailing a design pattern for constructing Puppet code bases known as "Roles and Profiles" that is still referred to today and now has become the de-facto recommended way to implement Puppet. I've spoken at numerous events worldwide on this and other topics around configuration management.

Many of my Puppet Modules that I have written have been released as open source and helped thousands of people improve their systems automation. I have an open source ethos that I try and project onto my clients and always push that any useful code I write can be published open source for others to use and improve on.

I am the author and maintainer of the Jerakia project, an open source hierarchical data lookup tool that integrates with a number of config management platforms such as Puppet, Ansible and Terraform.

The majority of my open source releases are thanks to forward thinking clients who allow me to release code into the public domain, but the time it takes to continue investing in new features and bug fixes to support projects I've built for previous clients comes out of my personal time which is limited. By sponsoring me you'll enable me to free up more "work time" to dedicate to doing what I, and users of my projects love; Solving problems and writing awesome tools to help weary systems engineers and developers automate their infrastructures.

Notable Projects

Featured work

  1. crayfishx/hiera-gpg

    GPG Backend to HIera

    Ruby 101
  2. crayfishx/hiera-http

    HTTP backend for Hiera

    Ruby 104
  3. crayfishx/hiera-mysql

    MySQL back end for Hiera

    Ruby 37
  4. crayfishx/puppet-purge

    A metatype for purging Puppet resources.

    Ruby 18
  5. crayfishx/puppet-db2

    Puppet module to automate DB2 Server installation

    Ruby 6
  6. crayfishx/jerakia

    A pluggable and extendable data lookup system

    Ruby 7

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You're really helping me to work towards my goal of having real time to dedicate to open source. Thank you so much

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This level of sponsorship really helps me achieve my (our!) goals. As well as my gratitude you can also ping me privately to review and respond to one issue or PR on any of my projects. I can't promise to fix the issue on the spot but you will get a response!

If you choose to, I will add a sponsorship recognition to the GitHub README to one of my open source projects that you wish to be associated with

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As a bronze sponsor you are really helping to make a difference to the projects I maintain and future ideas I have. As well as the perks above you will also get access to my Slack channel where I will give you priority when it comes to responding to your questions.

I will also (subject to content) retweet any post of your choosing on Twitter that has an open source theme to ~500 followers.

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As a silver sponsor you will have all of the benefits above, this really really makes a difference. On top of that you can book one hour of my time per month, subject to agreement and timezones...etc. This time can be used for;

  • One to one video/voice call
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  • Support over Slack or IRC

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As a gold sponsor you are more like a partner. You will receive all of the benefits above, plus

  • 6 hours of my time per month
  • Free access to all of my training materials
  • Headline sponsorship of any project that I work on that you choose
  • Contact me using a variety of messaging platforms not publicly known