I need the exit codes for Ansible for reporting purposes.
The exit status or return code of a process in computer programming is a small number passed from a child process (or callee) to a parent process (or caller) when it has finished executing a specific procedure or delegated task.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_status
Google can’t seem to show me information about the Ansible commandline exit statuses though. So I looked them up & here they are. The exit states were different in older versions, only the more recent versions are compliant with standard Linux exit behaviour.
Ansible exit 0
OK
This includes “no hosts matched”.
Ansible exit 1
Something’s wrong.
Includes wrong options, missing arguments, errors in the playbook, ansible specific errors.
Ansible exit 2
Failed hosts
Ansible exit 3
Dark hosts
source: source code VERSION 1.7, bin/ansible file.
This should be in the Docs & if I ever figure out where to submit this & what hoops to jump through to get this in there, I will. But first some more work! And in the mean time, at least it’ll be on here..
blog.cone 
Fatal error on fact’s not found produces exit state 3:
(fatal: [localhost] => One or more undefined variables: ‘dict object’ has no attribute ‘ansible_facts’)
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