Ansible London – Thursday 12th March 2026
Venue: Metro Bank, 1 Southampton Row, London WC1B 5HA, London, GB
Hi everyone!
Thank you to everyone who attended the Ansible London meetup at Metro Bank. We had a great evening of talks, discussions and of course pizza! 
A special thank you to @uk-bolly as co-organiser and for your talk, as well as Gregor Berginc (CEO of XLAB Steampunk) for his excellent talk too.
Here are the links to the slides and details of the presentations. Please do take advantage of the Ansible Forum and ask any follow up questions here.
Ansible Beyond the YAML: Understanding Automation as a Supply Chain
- Speaker: Gregor Berginc (CEO of XLAB Steampunk)
- Slides
This talk explored what really runs during an Ansible execution beyond playbooks and roles. We looked at the hidden layers of the automation supply chain and why understanding them matters as automation scales. A mental model was shared that helps practitioners move fast while understanding what truly runs in production.
Adopting Automation: A S.M.A.R.T.E.R Framework for Operational Transformation
This talk introduced the S.M.A.R.T.E.R framework. This approach moved organizations from initial process assessment and piloting to full scale automation. The talk concluded that achieving high level maturity required strong governance through a Centre of Excellence. It also highlighted the importance of engaged team collaboration and the continuous measurement of impact to ensure long term efficiency gains.
Building Ansible Execution Environments via GitHub Actions
- Speaker: @dbrennand
- No slides due to it being a 15 minute lightning talk.
- GitHub Action Workflow
This lightning talk showed how you can use GitHub Actions to build a custom Ansible Execution Environment with a real world example.
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