host failure does not skip the remaining roles/plays for the failed hosts

[Jesse Schlüter]

Hello everyone,

we just switched to ansible 2.0. First of all thanks for all the work you put into it!

But it seems I am unable to get it to behave "the way I am used to" ;)

Until now we had a task in the playbooks to check whether a host is "alive". With 1.9 all remaining tasks/roles/plays were skipped for a host if the first task failed. Now with 2.0 for every role/play ansible forgets that the host already failed and tries to execute tasks on this host again.

Is there a way to get the old behavior back?

Best regards,

Jesse