You can do this now w/o waiting for a new feature.
- block:
- win_ping:
ignore_unreachable: true
register: ping
- name: this forces a recoverable fail
assert:
that:
- not ping['unreachable']|default(False)
- # depending on connection plugin, you can inspect ping['msg']
For some background, this was initially an RFE that was opened from a Red
Hat support ticket. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/76227.
Here's where I'm struggling with this. I have a playbook that creates a VM
in vCenter, sets it up for WinRM, and then applies some OS configs (updates
