Unable to fail terminate Ansible playbook upon string match condition - string

Question

I wish to fail and terminate my ansible playbook when Number=TKT334
Below is my playbook:
---
- name: "Play 1"
hosts: localhost
any_errors_fatal: True
serial: 1
tags: always
tasks:
- name: Setting string variable.
set_fact:
inlinevar: '2020-06-10 20:22:16\tTKT334\tKIRAN\tDeployed\tPRODUCTION'
- name: Setting string variable.
set_fact:
environment: 'PRODUCTION'
- block:
- name: "Search to avoid duplicate CR Numbers user:{{ ansible_user_id }}"
shell: "echo SUCCESSSSSSS"
failed_when: (inlinevar is search( Number ) and environment == "PRODUCTION")
- debug:
msg: This is FINAL inlinevar `{{ inlinevar }}`
rescue:
- name: Print custom conditional debug message
fail:
msg: >-
{{
command_result_app.stdout is search( Number ) |
ternary(
"This CR is already Deployed. Hence retry with a Unique CR Number.",
"The Dtabase is not reachable. Unable to connect To the Database."
)
}}
However, when I run the playbook I do not fail and continues to print the debug:
I was expecting it to fail but it shows ansible run as successful and does not terminate the playbook executions.
See the output below:
ansible-playbook test.yml -e Number=TKT334
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'
PLAY [Play 1] *************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] *************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Setting string variable.] ****************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Setting string variable.] ****************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Search to avoid duplicate CR Numbers user:{{ ansible_user_id }}] ***
changed: [localhost]
TASK [debug] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": "This is FINAL inlinevar `2020-06-10 20:22:16\\tTKT334\\t KIRAN\\tDeployed\\tPRODUCTION`"
}
PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=5 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
Can you please suggest?

Answer 1

environment is a special option used to set environment variables for tasks, e.g.
- name: Do something
shell: echo "whatever"
environment:
http_proxy: http://my.server.com:8080
no_proxy: my.domain.com
In your case, environment is always empty after set_fact and environment == "PRODUCTION" is always false.
Rename your variable to something else, don't use environment (see this other question for more discussion), e.g.
[...]
- name: Setting string variable.
set_fact:
deploy_environment: 'PRODUCTION'
- block:
- name: "Search to avoid duplicate CR Numbers user:{{ ansible_user_id }}"
shell: "echo SUCCESSSSSSS"
failed_when: (inlinevar is search( Number ) and deploy_environment == "PRODUCTION")
[...]