diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index d215b43e1abd6..e0c80bc45fc1b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -1000,6 +1000,7 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
             <configuration>
+              <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
               <forkCount>${testsThreadCount}</forkCount>
               <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
               <argLine>${maven-surefire-plugin.argLine} -DminiClusterDedicatedDirs=true</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
index 5d3f9f6ddffb6..bded0b5cf7d48 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-kms/pom.xml
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
+          <testFailureIgnore>${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 e951320242b0a..e398bfb26d8fe 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs/pom.xml
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
+          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <threadCount>1</threadCount>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>600</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
           <systemPropertyVariables>
@@ -361,6 +362,7 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
             <configuration>
+              <testFailureIgnore>${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 820879dd34a1d..c2b6f954765d1 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -507,6 +507,7 @@ 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 0c1ad0b86e34d..e33ce51f5a723 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>9.4.40.v20210413</jetty.version>
     <test.exclude>_</test.exclude>
@@ -1758,6 +1760,7 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
+          <testFailureIgnore>${ignoreTestFailure}</testFailureIgnore>
           <reuseForks>false</reuseForks>
           <forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>${surefire.fork.timeout}</forkedProcessTimeoutInSeconds>
           <argLine>${maven-surefire-plugin.argLine}</argLine>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
index 223f0183d0977..72b6b5bb76acf 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/pom.xml
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
+          <testFailureIgnore>${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 dbddbb3d97b3d..36f6cf2c06d86 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-registry/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-registry/pom.xml
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@
       <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>