# How to perform rolling update (1 by 1) without stopping whole play at first error?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-perform-rolling-update-1-by-1-without-stopping-whole-play-at-first-error/43529>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [June 24, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-perform-rolling-update-1-by-1-without-stopping-whole-play-at-first-error/43529 "2025-06-24T11:23:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![AxelNL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@AxelNL](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AxelNL)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-perform-rolling-update-1-by-1-without-stopping-whole-play-at-first-error/43529/1 "2025-06-24T11:23:37Z")

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Hello dear community,  
I’m a beginner with Ansible and I’m trying to perform a rolling update/reboot on multiple hosts one after another.  
I’m actually using:

```auto
hosts: 'all'
strategy: free (same issue for linear)
serial: "{{max_parallel | default('100%')}}"

```

The thing is that, when I specify `max_parallel:1`, the whole play/job fail on the first error encountered (which is not the case when there is more than 1 host…)  
I would like it to keep going on next hosts even if an error was encountered on the previous one (to be faire I did not test the case where all hosts in a “batch” are failing in order to see if it also end the play)).

I’ve already tried `max_fail_percentage: 100` or `any_errors_fatal: false`, nothing changed.

Is there something I need to setup differently?

Thanks for you help!

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**Author:** ![AxelNL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@AxelNL](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AxelNL)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-perform-rolling-update-1-by-1-without-stopping-whole-play-at-first-error/43529/2 "2025-06-24T13:42:51Z")

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Finally found this related topic: [workaround for serial: 1 failures stopping the entire playbook? - Archives / Ansible Project - Ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/workaround-for-serial-1-failures-stopping-the-entire-playbook/30038)

But no answers since 2019 😅  
Is it still a viable solution?