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Managing failure with the fail module

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Managing failure with the fail module

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In this video, you'll learn how to manage failure using the fill module. So let's talk about failure handling in general first. When you run a playbook, Ansible looks at the exit status of a task to determine whether it has failed. Every task runs a command, and the exit status is just as it is in any other command. Exit status 0 means successful, exit status non-zero means that it was not successful. So if Ansible receives an exit status non-zero, it considers the tasks to be failing. And that is a problem in non-idempotent modules like the command module, as we have seen before. If a failure occurs, Ansible aborts the rest of the play on that host and continues with the next host. If you don't want that, there's a couple of solutions. You can use ignoreErrors in a task or also on a play to ignore failures. You can also use forceHandlers to force a handler that has been triggered to run, even if another task fails. We have seen that before. If ignoreErrors is set to yes and…

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