- hosts: testhost gather_facts: false tasks: - name: "use a connection plugin raising an exception, exception message contains Jinja template." connection: dummy command: /bin/true # command won't be executed register: result ignore_errors: True - name: "check that Jinja template embedded in exception message isn't rendered" debug: msg: 'ok' when: result is failed register: debug_task - assert: that: - result is failed - "'an error with' in result.msg" # makes sure plugin was found - debug_task is success