Ansible Ignore errors in tasks and fail at end of the playbook if any tasks had errors

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I am learning Ansible  I have a playbook to clean up resources  and I want the playbook to ignore every error and keep going on till the end   and then fail at the end if there were errors   I can ignore errors with    ignore errors  yes   If it was one task  I could do something like   from ansible error catching   - name  this command prints FAILED when it fails   command   usr bin example-command -x -y -z   register  command result   ignore errors  True  - name  fail the play if the previous command did not succeed   fail  msg  the command failed    when    FAILED  in command result stderr    How do I fail at the end   I have several tasks  what would my  When  condition be

User · Accepted Answer

Use Fail module    Use ignore errors with every task that you need to ignore in case of errors  Set a flag  say  result   false  whenever there is a failure in any task execution At the end of the playbook  check if flag is set  and depending on that  fail the execution    - fail  msg  The execution has failed because of errors     when  flag     failed     Update    Use register to store the result of a task like you have shown in your example  Then  use a task like this   - name  Set flag   set fact  flag   failed   when    FAILED  in command result stderr

User · Answer

Fail module works great  Thanks   I had to define my fact before checking it  otherwise I d get an undefined variable error   And I had issues when doing setting the fact with quotes and without spaces   This worked   set fact  flag  failed    This threw errors   set fact  flag   failed

User · Answer

You can wrap all tasks which can fail in block  and use ignore errors  yes with that block   tasks    - name  ls     command  ls -la   - name  pwd     command  pwd    - block      - name  ls non-existing txt file       command  ls -la no file txt     - name  ls non-existing pic       command  ls -la no pic jpg     ignore errors  yes    Read more about error handling in blocks here

[ansible] Ansible Ignore errors in tasks and fail at end of the playbook if any tasks had errors

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