Serializing one task in an ansible playbook

In my workflow, I'm running playbook on all hosts from mine inventory, but in the middle I need to execute one command on a different system (lets creatively call it "central server") for all hosts in the inventory. And whats bad, that command is not capable to run in parallel, so I need to serialize it a bit. Initial version which does not do any serialization was:

- hosts: all
  remote_user: root
  tasks:
    - name: "Configure something on host"
      command: ...
    - name: "Configure something on central server for each host"
      command:
        some_command --host "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"
      delegate_to: centralserver.example.com
    - name: "Configure something else on host"
      command: ...

But "some_command" can not run multiple times in parallel and I can not fix it, so this is first way I have used to serialize it (so it runs only once on the central server at any time):

- hosts: all
  remote_user: root
  tasks:
    - name: "Configure something on host"
      command: ...
- hosts: all
  remote_user: root
  serial: 1
  tasks:
    - name: "Configure something on central server for each host"
      command:
        some_command --host "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"
      delegate_to: centralserver.example.com
- hosts: all
  remote_user: root
  tasks:
    - name: "Configure something else on host"
      command: ...

So I have created 3 plays from previous 1 in my playbook where the middle one is serialized by "serial: 1" option. I have not used "forks: 1", because you can set this value only in ansible.cfg or on ansible-playbook command line.

Another way was to keep only one play in a playbook, run given task only once and iterate over whole inventory:

- hosts: all
  remote_user: root
  tasks:
    - name: "Configure something on host"
      command: ...
    - name: "Configure something on central server for each host"
      command:
        some_command --host "{{ item }}"
      with_items: groups['all']
      run_once: true
      delegate_to: centralserver.example.com
    - name: "Configure something else on host"
      command: ...

In my case I needed hostname, so in the command I have used hostvariable {{ hostvars[item]['ansible_fqdn'] }}.