Peter Eckhardt
Developer
Experience
Developer
IBM
- Skills: OpenStack, Python, SaltStack
- Used products: OpenStack, Ceph, CentOS
DevOps Consultant
IBM Research
- Reorganization of SaltStack environment
- Automation with SaltStack/Python
- Maintenance of OpenStack (kilo)
- Maintenance of Ceph (luminous)
- Set up a new OpenStack environment (RHOSP 17/17.1) with composable services and isolated networks
- Set up a new Ceph environment (Red Hat Storage 5/6)
- Introduction of Satellite and initial release management
- Automation with Ansible
- Skills: Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rust, Perl, Shell Scripting
- Used products: Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Storage, CentOS, Ansible, Terraform, Python, SaltStack, Rust, Shell Scripting, Cloud-init
Consultant
Consulting
- Consulting on SUSE Manager
- Skills: SLES, SUSE Manager, software distribution
- Used products: SUSE Manager
Consulting
Consulting
- Development of a patch management process
- Skills: Red Hat, software distribution
- Used products: Katello, Jenkins, Foreman
Design/Implementation
Automotive
- Introduction of Linux in the corporation (2008-2011)
- Linux release and patch management (2010-2022)
- Linux configuration management (2014-2022)
- Automated Linux launches (2008-2022)
- Technical project lead for Linux projects (2008-2018)
- Skills: SLES Admin, SUSE Manager, SaltStack, Scripting, Architecture, High Availability
- Used products: SLES, RHEL, SUSE Manager, SaltStack
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Experienced in Automotive (17 years) and Information Technology (4 years).
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Experienced in Information Technology (17 years), Project Management (17 years), and Operations (4 years).
Summary
- DevOps in large environments
- Automation
- OpenStack
Skills
- Saltstack
- Openstack
- Ceph
- Python
- Unix
- Shell Scripting
- Architecture
- Automation
- Configuration/build Management
- Release Management
- Sles
- Rhel
- Centos
- Suse Manager
- Red Hat Satellite
- Rhosp
- Terraform
- Rust
Languages
Education
TU Darmstadt
Business Informatics · Darmstadt, Germany
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