Helm module doesn't report "status" return info, not possible to detect failures?

[gygitlab]

SUMMARY

Apologies in advanced if I've misunderstood the docs or missed something.

The docs state that the kubernetes.core.helm module should be returning a status object that contains various information on the Helm deployment, such as status.

I was reviewing this as we've been seeing the odd failure with our charts and wanted to have Ansible throw an error in that event. We noticed that the module wasn't returning the return code from the helm command and then turned to this object but all I can see in the result is the logs (msg, stdout, stderr).

How do we detect failures from the Helm command?

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

kubernetes.core.helm

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible [core 2.15.3]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['<usr_dir>/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = <usr_dir>/.asdf/installs/python/3.11.2/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = <usr_dir>/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = <usr_dir>/.asdf/installs/python/3.11.2/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.11.2 (main, Mar  8 2023, 12:44:06) [Clang 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.202)] (<usr_dir>/.asdf/installs/python/3.11.2/bin/python3.11)
  jinja version = 3.1.2
  libyaml = True

COLLECTION VERSION

Collection      Version
--------------- -------
kubernetes.core 2.4.0

CONFIGURATION

CALLBACKS_ENABLED(env: ANSIBLE_CALLBACKS_ENABLED) = ['profile_tasks']
CONFIG_FILE() = None
PAGER(env: PAGER) = less

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Mac OS / Linux

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Use kubernetes.core.helm to try and deploy a Chart that's expected to fail. Notice that the task passes and there's no definitive way to detect failures from Helm.

EXPECTED RESULTS

Users have a way to detect failures from Helm.

ACTUAL RESULTS

Helm task passes quietly even though the command itself has failed.

[gravesm]

If the helm command fails, the task should fail. Can you provide an example playbook and its output for a case in which you are seeing the helm command fail but the task does not?