Company announcements, community activity, and open source contributions
Mark will be attending Infosecurity Europe at ExCeL London from 3 to 5 June 2026, one of the most important security events in the calendar. He'll be on the floor meeting up with clients and friends throughout the event. If you spot him, ask how he can help. Whether that's infrastructure automation, OS compliance, or anything in between, he's always happy to talk shop.
Mark hosted the Ansible London meetup in February 2026, introducing Xlabs to the community and presenting an overview of automation adoption processes, covering the key stages organisations go through when moving from ad hoc scripting to a governed, scalable automation practice. The session sparked strong discussion on tooling choices, team enablement, and where most adoption efforts stall.
We've formalised our automation adoption offering into a structured six-phase service — covering maturity assessment, strategy and roadmap, proof of concept, implementation, team enablement, and governance. Designed for organisations at any stage of their automation journey, the service focuses on sustainable adoption rather than just tool delivery.
Mark Bolwell presented at the Ansible London meetup, sharing practical insights from real-world infrastructure automation and OS compliance adoption projects. The talk covered patterns for embedding compliance into Ansible workflows, lessons from large-scale STIG and CIS Benchmark rollouts, and team enablement strategies that outlast the engagement.
Mark presented at ConfigMgmtCamp in Ghent, covering automation adoption patterns and operating system compliance at scale. The session explored how organisations can move from ad hoc automation to a governed, team-wide practice — and the common pitfalls to avoid along the way.
Mark remains a core developer and leading contributor to Ansible-Lockdown, an open source project delivering audited, security-hardened Ansible roles aligned with CIS Benchmarks and DISA STIGs across Linux and Windows platforms. The project is actively maintained and freely available to the community.
Mark organises the Ansible London meetup, bringing together practitioners from across the UK to share experience, discuss tooling, and tackle real-world automation challenges. If you're working with Ansible and based in or near London, come along and connect with the community.
Krameff Solutions Ltd was established to bring together over 25 years of IT industry experience — spanning end-user support through to enterprise infrastructure design and global deployment — into a focused consultancy specialising in infrastructure automation and operating system compliance adoption.