diff --git a/playbooks/roles/gitea-git-repos/library/gitea_create_repos.py b/playbooks/roles/gitea-git-repos/library/gitea_create_repos.py
index 6f405244aa..ac936b1e9b 100755
--- a/playbooks/roles/gitea-git-repos/library/gitea_create_repos.py
+++ b/playbooks/roles/gitea-git-repos/library/gitea_create_repos.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ class Gitea(object):
         self.orgs = { f['project'].split('/')[0] for f in  self.projects }
         self._log = []
         self.session = requests.Session()
+        self.failed = False
 
     def log(self, *args):
         now = datetime.datetime.utcnow().isoformat()
@@ -195,6 +196,7 @@ class Gitea(object):
                 r = f.result()
             except Exception as e:
                 self.log(str(e))
+                self.failed = True
         thread_pool.shutdown()
 
 
@@ -221,7 +223,11 @@ def ansible_main():
     except Exception as e:
         module.fail_json(msg=str(e), changed=True)
 
-    module.exit_json(changed=True, log=gitea.get_log())
+    log = gitea.get_log()
+    if gitea.failed:
+        module.fail_json(msg="Failure during repo creation, see log",
+                         changed=bool(log), log=log)
+    module.exit_json(changed=bool(log), log=log)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':