diff --git a/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load b/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
index 76b1cc193f..b2d9e36a04 100755
--- a/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
+++ b/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ else
   echo "This is the initial template load"
 fi
 
+# If soup is running, ignore errors
+pgrep soup > /dev/null && should_exit_on_failure=0
+
 load_failures=0
 
 load_template() {