Ansible London

Note, this is at a different location & event to Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London which happens takes place during the day. Please register separately if you wish to attend both.

Location
Metro Bank have kindly offered us use of their offices at 1 Southampton Row, London WC1B 5HA, short walk from Holborn Tube.
The entrance is just down from the bank itself on Southampton row.
Facing the Metrobank branch with Sainsburys behind you, head to the right past the bank and its on your left about 25mtrs.
As always, please bring photo ID

Agenda
Lets make an ansible plugin (stdout/callback) Live
John Stilia will explain what an Ansible plugin is, what are the options and how to make one. We will then use ChatGPT to get attendees input and make a plugin live, then run an example Playbook to see how the plugin behaves.

The Ansible Community
John "Gundalow" Barker will share an summary of the first Ansible Virtual Meetup that happened the previous week.
We will also be celebrating the 200th edition of the Ansible Bullhorn newsletter and seeing how the Ansible Forum can help you.

Lightning Talks & Discussion
For the first time, we will have lightning talks, and accepting talks and discussions on the day, so bring your laptop and slides/Playbooks or just just start a discussion.

We are looking for a for 5-15 minute lightning talks. Slides and demo optional, we are here for the discussion.

• Lesser known Ansible commands: ansible-docs, ansible-config, ansible-inventory

We've love for you to share your Ansible story.

Agenda
18:00 Doors open
18:30 Talks start
21:00 Close

Refreshments & Pizza
Besides the talks, we'll have the obligatory refreshments and pizza. So come along, mingle with fellow Ansiblings, and hopefully learn something interesting from the experiences shared.

Talks wanted!
We are looking for talks (5-20 minutes) for this, and future meetups. If you have something you'd like to talk about at a future meetup, submit your talk via the London GitHub Repo.

Here's a list of topics people would like to hear about – can you give a future talk on any of these popular requests?

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday 9th October 2025 💥