Make Ansible throw an error inside the role

Question

I'm trying to provision ec2 instance. I'm trying to do it in such a way that if something goes wrong during execution then the entire set up should be demolished. But how do I do this?

Answer 1

Hey @Nisha, you can use the block/rescue feature of ansible here. You can wrap your roles inside them. something like this:

- block:
    - name: task 1

    ... # something bad may happen here

    - name: task N

  rescue: 
    - assert: # we need a dummy task here to prevent our host from being failed
        that: ansible_failed_task is defined