# \[Vote ended on 2025-07-21\] Collection removal: google.cloud **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** gcp, community-wg, collection-exclusion\ **Created:** [September 18, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vote-ended-on-2025-07-21-collection-removal-google-cloud/8609 "2024-09-18T23:50:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vote-ended-on-2025-07-21-collection-removal-google-cloud/8609/6 "2025-01-16T18:22:56Z")
You can always simply use `ansible-galaxy collection install google.cloud` to install the collection if you use the `ansible` community package. If you don’t use the `ansible` community package, you have to explicitly install collections anyway, so in that case there should be no difference. > Is nobody else using GCP with Ansible? People are, but google.cloud doesn’t seem to be a good collection for GCP users, see for example [Community version of google.cloud](https://forum.ansible.com/t/9684). Also the collection has a history of being unmaintained for some time, see [What should be done for the sorry state of the google.cloud collection?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/36648) and the resulting discussion/vote [[Vote ended on 2023-02-14] Unmaintained collection: `google.cloud` · Issue #105 · ansible-community/community-topics · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/105); in the last discussion you will find that the collection was once scheduled for removal, but that removal was cancelled ([Re-add google.cloud to Ansible 8 by mariolenz · Pull Request #201 · ansible-community/ansible-build-data · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/pull/201)) later since the collection was maintained again. Generally it is also possible to cancel the scheduled removal again (see [Ansible Community Package Collections Removal Process — Ansible Community Documentation](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/collection_contributors/collection_package_removal.html#canceling-removal) for the process - I guess it’s missing step 0 “Someone needs to request that it gets re-added” though). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vote-ended-on-2025-07-21-collection-removal-google-cloud/8609)._