--- - hosts: testhost gather_facts: False vars: foo: blippy tasks: - name: First run {{ foo }} command: echo "18236 callback task template fix OUTPUT 1" register: the_result_var - block: - name: "{{ the_result_var.stdout }}" command: echo "18236 callback task template fix OUTPUT 2" register: the_result_var retries: 1 delay: 1 until: False ignore_errors: true # - name: assert task_name was - name: "{{ the_result_var.stdout }}" command: echo "18236 callback taskadfadf template fix OUTPUT 3" register: the_result_var - name: "{{ the_result_var.stdout }}" debug: msg: "nothing to see here."