There are a number of reasons for this change:
- Modules allow a single instance of the exporter to be configured with numerous
different tls configs. Previously you had to run a different exporter for each
combination.
- Adding new and more complicated options to the exporter should be easier with
modules than if I was to go down the route of accepting configuration directly through url params
- I prefer defining a specific prober (https,tcp) over using the URL to guess
what the user wants
- Don't use promu and upstream Prometheus Makefiles. I don't have a clear
process for keeping them in sync with the upstream and I don't think they add
much value.
- Use the same ldflags in goreleaser and the Makefile
- Run goreleaser from the Makefile so custom env vars can be injected
- Update to go 1.14
