--- - hosts: testhost gather_facts: false any_errors_fatal: true tasks: - block: - name: initial block debug debug: msg='any_errors_fatal_block, i execute normally' - name: EXPECTED FAILURE any_errors_fatal, initial block, bin/false to simulate failure command: /bin/false - name: after a task that fails I should never execute debug: msg: 'any_errors_fatal_block_post_fail ... i never execute, cause ERROR!' rescue: - name: any_errors_fatal_rescue_block debug debug: msg='any_errors_fatal_rescue_block_start ... I caught an error' - name: EXPECTED FAILURE any_errors_fatal in rescue block, using bin/false to simulate error command: /bin/false - name: any_errors_fatal post debug debug: msg='any_errors_fatal_rescue_block_post_fail ... I also never execute :-(' always: - name: any errors fatal always block debug debug: msg='any_errors_fatal_always_block_start'