Installing from distribution repo

[Yannik]

Hi,

as far as I could see in the playbooks, it is currently not supported to install prometheus from the main repository distribution repository of server (e.g. the debian packages repo).

This may have been a good approach when prometheus was still in its infancy, but today you can get pretty mature versions of prometheus from repos. It has the benefit of staying up-to-date with regards to security much easier than having to carefully watch changelogs/cves (and then installing from source again).

Is this a deliberate design choice, or would you be open for a PR which supports installation from the distro repository?

Best regards Yannik