title: How do I avoid ansible deployment failures due to dpkg lock file?
body: <p>It seems that getting failures due to /var/lib/dpkg/lock is something not very rare. Based on observations these are caused most of the time 9/10 due to state lock file or while a cron job was running.</p>
  
  <p>This means that a retry mechanism combined with a removal of stale file could be the solution. </p>
  
  <p>How can I do this in ansible?</p>