Add swap memory with ansible

Question

I\'m working on a project where having swap memory on my servers is a needed to avoid some python long running processes to go out of memory and realized for the first time that

Answer 1

This is my current solution:

- name: Create swap file
  command: dd if=/dev/zero of={{ swap_file_path }} bs=1024 count={{ swap_file_size_mb }}k
           creates="{{ swap_file_path }}"
  tags:
    - swap.file.create


- name: Change swap file permissions
  file: path="{{ swap_file_path }}"
        owner=root
        group=root
        mode=0600
  tags:
    - swap.file.permissions


- name: "Check swap file type"
  command: file {{ swap_file_path }}
  register: swapfile
  tags:
    - swap.file.mkswap


- name: Make swap file
  command: "sudo mkswap {{ swap_file_path }}"
  when: swapfile.stdout.find('swap file') == -1
  tags:
    - swap.file.mkswap


- name: Write swap entry in fstab
  mount: name=none
         src={{ swap_file_path }}
         fstype=swap
         opts=sw
         passno=0
         dump=0
         state=present
  tags:
    - swap.fstab


- name: Mount swap
  command: "swapon {{ swap_file_path }}"
  when: ansible_swaptotal_mb < 1
  tags:
    - swap.file.swapon