There really should be a wget URL for every app. The Splunk installer, and universal forwarder are available using wget so why are the apps not?
Today we configure every machine using tools like asible, chef, or puppet, it part of the disaster recovery. Since apps can't be downloaded on the host using wget, we have to check them into the git repo along with the ansible scripts, and this is really bad practice, alternatively we can put them into a public maven repo, or an S3 bucket, but thats just workarounds.
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