diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index 1da0b49dc7a..4b29437b050 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -799,6 +799,7 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
             <configuration>
+              <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
               <forkCount>${testsThreadCount}</forkCount>
               <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
               <argLine>${maven-surefire-plugin.argLine} -DminiClusterDedicatedDirs=true</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
index 45bc8d36982..78e26d98b94 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
+          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <forkCount>1</forkCount>
           <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
           <threadCount>1</threadCount>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
index 2797ad3988d..481f71c3d54 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
+          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <threadCount>1</threadCount>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>600</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
           <systemPropertyVariables>
@@ -408,6 +409,7 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
             <configuration>
+              <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
               <forkCount>1</forkCount>
               <reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
               <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>600</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index 97c7cec5998..b6f19f6a642 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
             <configuration>
+              <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
               <forkCount>${testsThreadCount}</forkCount>
               <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
               <argLine>${maven-surefire-plugin.argLine} -DminiClusterDedicatedDirs=true</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 0245444f7a5..d1b1f1c2e90 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
     <release-year>2021</release-year>
 
     <failIfNoTests>false</failIfNoTests>
+    <!--Whether to proceed to next module if any test failures exist-->
+    <ignoreTestFailure>true</ignoreTestFailure>
     <maven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile>true</maven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile>
     <jetty.version>6.1.26</jetty.version>
     <test.exclude>_</test.exclude>
@@ -1614,6 +1616,7 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
+          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>${surefire.fork.timeout}</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
           <argLine>${maven-surefire-plugin.argLine}</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
index 9c0795a966b..0c96aedce99 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
+          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <forkCount>1</forkCount>
           <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>600</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-registry/pom.xml b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-registry/pom.xml
index 3d7e35514c8..333fd5a3f9a 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-registry/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-registry/pom.xml
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
       <configuration>
+        <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
         <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
         <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>900</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
         <argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError</argLine>