diff --git a/docker/services/ceph-ansible/ceph-base.yaml b/docker/services/ceph-ansible/ceph-base.yaml
index bd6f0a741a..4bd31fc808 100644
--- a/docker/services/ceph-ansible/ceph-base.yaml
+++ b/docker/services/ceph-ansible/ceph-base.yaml
@@ -415,6 +415,10 @@ outputs:
                       - name: register machine id
                         command: dmidecode -s system-uuid
                         register: machine_uuid
+                        # NOTE(tonyb): 0 == no error, 1 == -EPERM or bad data and 2 == Command not found
+                        # 1 and 2 aren't great but shouldn't cause the deploy to fail.  If we're using
+                        # the node specific data we'll fail then.  If we aren't then lets keep moving
+                        failed_when: machine_uuid.rc not in [0, 1, 2]
                       - name: generate host vars from nodes data
                         local_action:
                           module: copy