Ignore Error in Ansible playbook

 

In this tutorial, we will learn to ignore error in ansible playbook.

While Executing play book if any error occurred in a task. Remaining tasks will get ignored

Some Cases we want to ignore the error. Ansible provide option to ignore error on Exception handling 

below is the Syntax to ignore error in ansible playbook  

Syntax

ignore_errors: yes

Sample playbook

---

- name: Network Getting Started First Playbook  
  gather_facts: false
  hosts: all
  tasks:

    - name: Make a directory    
      shell: "mkdir sample"       
	- name: Make another directory with same name  
      shell: "mkdir sample" 
      ignore_errors: yes
	- name: Make another directory with another name  
      shell: "mkdir demo" 
      ignore_errors: yes

Output

fatal: [127.0.01]: FAILED! => {"ansible_facts": {"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"}, "changed": true, "cmd": "mkdir sample", "delta": "0:00:00.008711", "end": "2020-02-21 10:23:37.305132", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2020-02-21 10:23:37.296421", "stderr": "mkdir: cannot create directory ‘sample’: File exists", "stderr_lines": ["mkdir: cannot create directory ‘sample’: File exists"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}
...ignoring

In the above example. we are trying to make a duplicate directory which will occur an error. So we used ignore_errors command to ignore the error and to proceed further

we can see the <span class="token punctuation">..</span>.ignoring

Reference

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_error_handling.html

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