How to ignore failed commands in Ansible

Question

Suppose I want to ignore failed commands and continue with the execution of the playbook, how do I do this in Ansible?

Answer 1

Usually, if even one command fails to execute, the playbook execution stops. Write a task to ignore errors:

- name: this will not be counted as a failure
  command: /bin/false
  ignore_errors: yes

This does not ignore syntax errors though.