Pin telegraf to {present, latest, specific-version} about ansible-telegraf HOT 2 CLOSED

I would like to +1 this - when using state: present or state: installed, if the agent is already installed, but a newer version is set in the defaults, no change is made.

Since the version is already set by the variable telegraf_agent_version, you could use this to install the specific version, so that it will be upgraded if that variable changes, for example:

apt:
  name:   "telegraf={{ telegraf_agent_version }}"
  state:  present
  notify: Restart Telegraf
  become: yes
  force:  true

Note that adding force: true is also required, in order to allow downgrading as well as upgrading.

from ansible-telegraf.

By the way, it looks like this already happens for the RedHat version, but not for the Debian version?

from ansible-telegraf.