post_tasks did not run for all hosts after 1 host failed block in role

[Daniel Leonard]

Hi guys,

Ran a playbook against 2 hosts: host1 and host2

Extract of playbook:

roles:

   - role: a

   - role: b

   - role: c

post_tasks:

   - name: Post Task 1

   ::::::::::::::::::::::::::

   - name: Post Task 2

   ::::::::::::::::::::::::::

   - name: Post Task 3

   ::::::::::::::::::::::::::

In role c the main task is like:

---

- block:

   - include: x.yml

   - include: y.yml

   - include: z.yml

  rescue:

   - fail: msg="There was a failure in main!!"

y.yml is like:

---

- block:

   - name: Task 1

   ::::::::::::::::::::::::::

   - name: Task 2

   ::::::::::::::::::::::::::

   - name: Task 3

   ::::::::::::::::::::::::::

  rescue:

   - fail: msg="There was a failure in y!!"

host2 failed a task in y.yml. As expected all other tasks in z.yml were executed for host1

However, neither host1 or host2 executed any of the post tasks. I did not expect this to be the behavior. I thought host1 should execute the post tasks.

Could anybody please help me to understand why this happens and suggest how to make sure the post_tasks execute for hosts which have not had any role task failures?

Preferably while still using post_tasks. 

Thanks a lot,

Daniel

[Daniel Leonard]

Hi,

Actually I'm only getting this behavior when using the ansible integration for StackStorm https://github.com/StackStorm-Exchange/stackstorm-ansible

Running this playbook using plain ansible behaves as I expected it would i.e. host1 executes post_tasks.

Cheers,

Daniel