Installing CUDA display driver silently to Windows 2016 via automation fails?

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I’m setting up Windows Server 2016 instances within google cloud as part of an elastically scaling continuous integration farm for games development.

Cooking unreal-engine assets benefits greatly in terms of speed when a GPU is present. So, I’m attempting to create instances that have NVidia Tesla P100 GPUs attached (the other option is K80).

I am building these instances via ansible, a configuration management tool.

I have so far been unsuccessful when attempting to install the display driver via instructions at Criar uma VM com GPUs anexadas  |  Documentação do Compute Engine  |  Google Cloud - I’m running commands remotely via ansible to download then try to install the display-driver.

My ansible task looks like:

- name: install driver
  win_package:
    path: https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/10.0/Prod/network_installers/cuda_10.0.130_win10_network
    arguments:
      - "-s"
      - "Display.Driver"
    # product_id from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{B2FE1952-0186-46C3-BAEC-A80AA35AC5B8}_Display.Driver
    product_id: "B2FE1952-0186-46C3-BAEC-A80AA35AC5B8"

though I’ve also tried

- name: fetch installer
  win_get_url:
    url: https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/10.0/Prod/network_installers/cuda_10.0.130_win10_network
    dest: c:/windows/temp/cuda_10.0.130_win10_network.exe

# Only need the display driver - basically, what a consumer would have.
# Install docs: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-microsoft-windows/index.html
- name: install nvidia
  win_shell: >-
    start-process c:/windows/temp/cuda_10.0.130_win10_network.exe
    -ArgumentList @("-s", "Display.Driver")
    -wait
    -PassThru
  args:
    creates: "C:/Program Files/NVIDIA Corporation"

The former gets me an error:

googlecompute: fatal: [10.49.0.148]: FAILED! => changed=false 
    googlecompute:   msg: 'unexpected rc from install  opvf1a5r.duz: see rc, stdout and stderr for more details'
    googlecompute:   rc: 3825205504
    googlecompute:   reboot_required: false
    googlecompute:   stderr: ''
    googlecompute:   stderr_lines: <omitted>
    googlecompute:   stdout: ''
    googlecompute:   stdout_lines: <omitted>

whereas the latter doesn’t error, but also does not install the driver successfully.

If I run the start-process call via powershell while remote-desktop’d into the instance, there’s a ‘trust this driver’ popup to click through; if I manually do that, then the driver successfully installs.

So - is there a way to automate, hands-off, the installation of the display driver? Is there some file or registry key I need to create in advance to allow Windows to pre-emptively trust the installation, something arcane like that…?

Any help greatly appreciated.

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Should have said; I googled the return code of 3825205504 but found nothing pertinent.