Ansible Swap Role

This role adds a swap file to your host. It currently supports Debian and RedHat distributions.

Requirements

None

Installation

$ ansible-galaxy install mikegleasonjr.swap

Role Variables

Here are the defaults from defaults/main.yml:

swap_size: "{{ ansible_memtotal_mb }}M"
swap_location: /swap
swap_sysctl_tweaks:
  vm.vfs_cache_pressure: "50"
  vm.swappiness: "10"

The default swap size is equivalent to the amount of RAM on the host. It accepts any valid parameter accepted by fallocate.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - mikegleasonjr.swap

Dependencies

none

License

BSD

Contributing

A vagrant environment has been provided to test the role on different distributions. Add your tests in tests.yml and...

$ vagrant up
$ vagrant provision

Author Information

Mike Gleason jr Couturier (mikegleasonjr@gmail.com)

Other roles from the same author:

• firewall