fail a play if a hosts: value is incorrect?

[zlemini]

Is it possible to configure Ansible to fail early if a hosts: value is incorrect, i.e. doesn't match a target machine in the inventory?

If the hosts: value is undefined like this:

 - name: Test module(s)
   hosts:

Then Ansible throws this: "ERROR! the field 'hosts' is required but was not set"

I am wondering if similar behaviour can be configured if the hosts: value is misconfigured.

[Brian Coca]

It will skip the play cause no groups/hosts match.


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Brian Coca