Hi
I’m trying to see if I can use Ansible to run some tests on network devices.
My goal is to execute a lot of “tests”, similar to unit tests in software dev, and report what passed and what failed at the end.
Right now I’m facing 2 issues that are making it complicated and I would be interested to hear people’s feedback here to see if there is a better solution available.
1/ When a task fails, all remaining tests for this device are not executed.
This is problematic because I would like to have all tests executed all the time and have a clear “report” of how many passed or failed.
Today I use “ignore_errors: true” but it’s not ideal as if changes the summary.
Is there a way to execute all tasks, even after a failure and keep the summary consistent ?2/ When a task fails, the complete value returned is printed on screen without much formatting,
If makes it difficult to understand why it fails in the first place and it can generate a lot of noise on the screen.
Is it possible to print only a portion of the value returned by a module on failure and access the remaining part as a variable.
Thanks
Damien