Clarify docs to explain that max_fail_percentage uses batch size (#33720)

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Sam Doran 2017-12-08 12:09:38 -05:00 committed by Sloane Hertel
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@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ You can also mix and match the values::
Maximum Failure Percentage
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By default, Ansible will continue executing actions as long as there are hosts in the group that have not yet failed.
By default, Ansible will continue executing actions as long as there are hosts in the batch that have not yet failed. The batch size for a play is all the hosts specified in the ``hosts:`` field.
In some situations, such as with the rolling updates described above, it may be desirable to abort the play when a
certain threshold of failures have been reached. To achieve this, as of version 1.3 you can set a maximum failure
certain threshold of failures have been reached. To achieve this, you can set a maximum failure
percentage on a play as follows::
- hosts: webservers