mostly a clarity thing since you can set the explicit broker id, but we usually don't want people to do that. This has probably been labeled this way for a long time. probably best to make it clear that we're getting the node id for use in ansible, not somuch that we're enforcing the node id to be something specific
https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda-ansible-collection/blob/6553162f811309d772e7376ef9555169f5bf10af/roles/redpanda_broker/tasks/start-redpanda.yml#L111
mostly a clarity thing since you can set the explicit broker id, but we usually don't want people to do that. This has probably been labeled this way for a long time. probably best to make it clear that we're getting the node id for use in ansible, not somuch that we're enforcing the node id to be something specific