[FAILED]:::TASK [mediapeers.ansible-role-influxdb : Add InfluxData repository]

[ghost]

Hey ho,

I tried to deploy influxdb with your ansible role and this error appears.
Maybe its on my side, maybe on yours. I just want to let you know and maybe you have an idea how to fix it.

docker: TASK [mediapeers.ansible-role-influxdb : Add InfluxData repository] ************
    docker: An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: apt.cache.FetchFailedException: E:The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found., W:Is the package apt-transport-https installed?, E:Failed to fetch https://repos.influxdata.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease  , E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
    docker: fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_txayrW/ansible_module_apt_repository.py\", line 550, in <module>\n    main()\n  File \"/tmp/ansible_txayrW/ansible_module_apt_repository.py\", line 542, in main\n    cache.update()\n  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py\", line 487, in update\n    raise FetchFailedException(e)\napt.cache.FetchFailedException: E:The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found., W:Is the package apt-transport-https installed?, E:Failed to fetch https://repos.influxdata.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease  , E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "rc": 1}

[ghost]

you maybe want to include this task:

- name: Check that HTTPS transport is available to APT
  apt:
    name: "apt-transport-https"
    state: present

[stefanhorning]

If you are running this on docker it might anyway be better to go with a different strategy and just use the docker images provided by InfluxData and run each app in a seperate container (one process per container).

As this role will install 3 apps in once, I am a bit reluctant to add things to provide a baseline for minimalistic docker images, as it's designed to run against Ubuntu Server, where things like apt-transport-https are usually preinstalled.