Fallback and logging in dist-upgrade via ansible ansible-playbook dist-upgrade.yml -i your_inventory [-l host_name]

dist-upgrade.yml

---
- hosts:
    all
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    verbose: false
    log_dir: "log/dist-upgrade/{{ inventory_hostname }}"
  pre_tasks:
    - block:
        - setup:
      rescue:
        - name: "Install required python-minimal package"
          raw: "apt-get update && apt-get install -y --force-yes python-apt python-minimal"
        - setup:
  tasks:
    - name: Update packages
      apt:
        update_cache: yes
        upgrade: dist
        autoremove: yes
      register: output

    - name: Check changes
      set_fact:
        updated: true
      when: not output.stdout | search("0 upgraded, 0 newly installed")

    - name: Display changes
      debug:
        msg: "{{ output.stdout_lines }}"
      when: verbose or updated is defined

    - block:
      - name: "Create log directory"
        file:
          path: "{{ log_dir }}"
          state: directory
        changed_when: false

      - name: "Write changes to logfile"
        copy:
          content: "{{ output.stdout }}"
          dest: "{{ log_dir }}/dist-upgrade_{{ ansible_date_time.iso8601 }}.log"
        changed_when: false

      when: updated is defined
      connection: local