continue execution of tasks on both hosts

[Robert Recchia]

I am creating a playbook that is used for multiple hosts - now this might not be the best way but I still want to figure it out.  I have two hosts now one that is centos 7 and one that is in amazon ec2.  Obviously one uses systemd and the other does not.  All the tasks apply to both hosts except for the stopping of firewalld

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- hosts: main

  user: root

  tasks:

          - name: Ensure firewalld is stopped 

            systemd:

                    name: firewalld

                    state: stopped

                    masked: yes

          - name: Disable Selinux

            selinux:

                    state: disabled 

          - name: Ensure we have latest updates

            yum:

                    name: "*"

                    state: latest

Once it gets to this part one host is "ok" and the other host ( amazon ec2 ) fails for obvious reasons.  There are like 10 other tasks that are after this that then only run on the local centos 7 server and of course the amazon ec2 instance does not get included.

TASK [Ensure firewalld is stopped] *********************************************

ok: [ip of centos 7]

fatal: [ip of amazon ec2]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "None show firewalld", "failed": true, "msg": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory", "rc": 2}

right after you see this 

TASK [Disable Selinux] *********************************************************

ok: [ip of centos 7]

and of course nothing for the amazon ec2 instance.  How can I keep the tasks running on the failed host. 

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 20. april 2017 19:16, Robert Recchia wrote:
> I am creating a playbook that is used for multiple hosts - now this might
> not be the best way but I still want to figure it out. I have two hosts
> now one that is centos 7 and one that is in amazon ec2. Obviously one uses
> systemd and the other does not. All the tasks apply to both hosts except
> for the stopping of firewalld
>

<snip>

> and of course nothing for the amazon ec2 instance. How can I keep the
> tasks running on the failed host.

Use when: [1] on the task to only run it on appropriate host or set
ignore_errors: yes [2] on the task.


[1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_conditionals.html
[2] http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_error_handling.html

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Kai Stian Olstad