Abort execution of remaining task if certain condition is failed

Question

I want to abort execution of remaining task if certain condition is failed. and display proper error message.

So instead of skipping remaining task I want to show er

Answer 1

So in Ansible 2.2+ there is the meta module: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/meta_module.html

So

meta: end_play

stops the playbook with a non failing status