Modified demo writes to use curl over Ansible (platform agnostic, and dependency free minus curl).

tasks/demo.yml

@@ -9,11 +9,7 @@
   when: db_listing.stdout.find("{{ influxdb_sample_database_name }}") == -1
 
 - name: Load demo data
-  uri:
-    url: http://{{ influxdb_meta_hostname }}:{{ influxdb_http_port }}/write?db={{ influxdb_sample_database_name }}
-    method: POST
-    body: "{{ influxdb_sample_measurement_name }},host=server_{{ 10 | random }},az=US{{ 5 | random }} value={{ 100 | random }}"
-    status_code: 204
+  command: "curl -XPOST http://localhost:8086/write?db={{ influxdb_sample_database_name }} --data-binary '{{ influxdb_sample_measurement_name }},host=server_{{ 10 | random }},az=US{{ 5 | random }} value={{ 100 | random }}'"
   with_sequence: start=1 end=10
-
+