Download prometheus remotely

[robinlehrmann]

Why not downloading it on the server directly? I had this error on my mac and thought it makes maybe sense to move the download directly to the server maybe?

fatal: [hetzner -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to find handler for \"/Users/robin.lehrmann/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1658956957.405443-31742-268351212854059/source\". Make sure the required command to extract the file is installed.\nCommand \"/usr/bin/tar\" detected as tar type bsd. GNU tar required.\nCommand \"/usr/bin/unzip\" could not handle archive:   End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not\n  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the\n  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on\n  the last disk(s) of this archive.\nnote:  /Users/robin.lehrmann/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1658956957.405443-31742-268351212854059/source may be a plain executable, not an archive\nunzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of /Users/robin.lehrmann/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1658956957.405443-31742-268351212854059/source or\n        /Users/robin.lehrmann/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1658956957.405443-31742-268351212854059/source.zip, and cannot find /Users/robin.lehrmann/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1658956957.405443-31742-268351212854059/source.ZIP, period.\n"}

[ashleykleynhans]

👍 for this. I am unable to install Prometheus on my Linux servers using a Mac as an Ansible controller, due to the following error:

fatal: [172.30.37.131 -> localhost]: FAILED! => {
    "attempts": 5,
    "changed": false,
    "module_stderr": "sudo: a password is required\n",
    "module_stdout": "",
    "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
    "rc": 1
}

This PR solves the issue.

[robinlehrmann]

👍 for this. I am unable to install Prometheus on my Linux servers using a Mac as an Ansible controller, due to the following error:

fatal: [172.30.37.131 -> localhost]: FAILED! => {
    "attempts": 5,
    "changed": false,
    "module_stderr": "sudo: a password is required\n",
    "module_stdout": "",
    "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
    "rc": 1
}

you can also use

ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass

or

ansible-playbook -K

thank you for the review :)

[gardar]

I think we should put this in a variable so that users can choose which method they want. You can't be sure everyone can/wants the binary to be downloaded on the remote server.

[Chasethechicken]

Hi, we would really appreciate this option. Are you planning to continue working on this or would you mind if someone else added an option to enable remote downloads?

[SuperQ]

This role has been deprecated in favor of a the prometheus-community/ansible collection.