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

Question

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?

Answer 1

Use Fail module.

1. Use ignore_errors with every task that you need to ignore in case of errors.
2. Set a flag (say, result = false) whenever there is a failure in any task execution
3. 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"