The node exporter install ansible role downloads binaries locally and then uploads to all hosts. Imagine you are deploying something from your laptop over a dinky home connection to 100 hosts in the cloud. This is going to take a long time.
Can we add a mode where it downloads the binaries onto the hosts themselves? This could be as simple as using omit for the delegate_to: values in the tasks that deal with with the download and then skipping the upload ("propagate") step.
The node exporter install ansible role downloads binaries locally and then uploads to all hosts. Imagine you are deploying something from your laptop over a dinky home connection to 100 hosts in the cloud. This is going to take a long time.
Can we add a mode where it downloads the binaries onto the hosts themselves? This could be as simple as using
omitfor thedelegate_to:values in the tasks that deal with with the download and then skipping the upload ("propagate") step.