Jon's aegir_ansible module is pretty useful: https://www.drupal.org/project/aegir_ansible - I implemented the hook in hosting_civicrm to populate a list of civicrm sites, then use Ansible to setup systemd timers for CiviCRM jobs (I wanted to log the cron output for easier debugging, and had a few users complaining about cron irregularity, as well as already using Ansible to setup crons on WordPress)
Yep seems similar on some aspects. I just wanted an inventory endpoint for my civicrm sites. I don't want to store too much data in d7 if it will be hard to migrate to d8 later on.
