Drive_append_to_sheet: Append columns to a Google Sheet

[mulbc]

SUMMARY

This module allow appending data to a Google Sheet.
This can be useful if you want to gather lots of data from
different amounts of hosts and process it further.

ISSUE TYPE

• New Module Pull Request

COMPONENT NAME

drive_append_to_sheet

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Using this module it is possible to archive variables in a playbook run into a Google Sheet.
This is especially interesting if you are trying to gather facts across lots of servers and you will want to do some statistical analysis on that data later on.
The idea for this module was started when I realized that just writing to a local file from different hosts in parallel (with delegate_to: localhost) does not work atomically.
#30413
#47322

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[dagwieers]

Apart from the cosmetic/doc changes, I have some other remarks:

• I don't think it belongs in cloud, because that's about managing cloud infrastructure
• I wonder if it makes sense to have this kind of highly specialized module in Ansible. I am torn between making one module that is a lot more flexible in what it can do, or a set of modules that offers a complete interface. But this module is very specific/limited.

[rambleraptor]

Hi! I'm one of the engineers working on the GCP modules.

I agree that this probably doesn't belong in the cloud/ folder. I'm not entirely sure where it would belong though.

Any core members have any ideas?

[mulbc]

I had a brief discussion with @dagwieers in IRC yesterday and since there isn't anything for the Google Drive API yet and this might create more than one module (and thus might get new folders in the module hierarchy) he created a wiki page for this:
https://github.com/ansible/community/wiki/GDrive
Current goal is to look at which API methods might be interesting as an Ansible module and plan ahead how the general interface of these future Google Drive modules should look like - then proceed here.

[ansibot]

Thank you very much for your interest in Ansible. Ansible has migrated much of the content into separate repositories to allow for more rapid, independent development. We are closing this issue/PR because this content has been moved to one or more collection repositories.

• lib/ansible/modules/cloud/google/drive_append_to_sheet.py -> https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/general

For further information, please see:
https://github.com/ansible/ansibullbot/blob/master/docs/collection_migration.md