Name: Ansible London – Thursday 9th October 2025
Start: 2025-10-09T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-09T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Metro Bank

Hello folks!

The next Ansible meetup is scheduled for **Thursday 9th October 2025**.

Note, this is at a different location & event to [Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 London](https://www.redhat.com/en/summit/connect/emea/london-2025?sc_cid=RHCTE0250000461625) 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](https://www.meetup.com/ansible-london/events/310386047/) that happened the previous week.
We will also be celebrating the 200th edition of the [Ansible Bullhorn](https://forum.ansible.com/c/news/5) newsletter and seeing how the [Ansible Forum](https://forum.ansible.com/signup) 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](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-london-meetup/issues/new?template=submit-a-talk.md).

**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](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-london-meetup/issues/new/choose).

Here's a list of topics people would like to hear about – can you give a future talk on any of these [popular requests](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-london-meetup/issues/37)?

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

John Barker

Mark Bolwell

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**John Stilia**
John is the author of [The Tao of Ansible](https://github.com/stiliajohny/Book-The-Tao-of-Ansible) book, which describes in simple words the philosophy around Ansible while they teach the reader the basics to get started. This book is an entry-level guide to learning Ansible, emphasizing its elegant simplicity and powerful automation capabilities. Through clear explanations and practical examples, readers will discover how Ansible’s straightforward approach can simplify infrastructure automation while providing the necessary features for more complex tasks

[John_Stilia on the Ansible Forum](https://forum.ansible.com/u/john_stilia/summary)

**John "gundalow" Barker**
John, or "gundalow" as he can be found on the Forum and Matrix is a long term contributor to Ansible project, and founder of the Ansible Community Engineering team at Red Hat. He is here to empower the wider Ansible community.
[Gundalow on the Ansible Forum](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow/summary)

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