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

I tried the answer above but "Check swap file type" always came back as changed and therefore isn't idempotent which is encouraged as a best practice when writing Ansible tasks.

The role below has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty and doesn't require gather_facts to be enabled.

- name: Set swap_file variable
  set_fact:
    swap_file: "{{swap_file_path}}"
  tags:
    - swap.set.file.path

- name: Check if swap file exists
  stat:
    path: "{{swap_file}}"
  register: swap_file_check
  tags:
    - swap.file.check

- name: Create swap file
  command: fallocate -l {{swap_file_size}} {{swap_file}}
  when: not swap_file_check.stat.exists
  tags:
    - swap.file.create

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

- name: Format swap file
  sudo: yes
  command: "mkswap {{swap_file}}"
  when: not swap_file_check.stat.exists
  tags:
    - swap.file.mkswap

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

- name: Turn on swap
  sudo: yes
  command: swapon -a
  when: not swap_file_check.stat.exists
  tags:
    - swap.turn.on

- name: Set swappiness
  sudo: yes
  sysctl:
    name: vm.swappiness
    value: "{{swappiness}}"
  tags:
    - swap.set.swappiness

Vars required:

swap_file_path: /swapfile
# Use any of the following suffixes
# c=1
# w=2
# b=512
# kB=1000
# K=1024
# MB=1000*1000
# M=1024*1024
# xM=M
# GB=1000*1000*1000
# G=1024*1024*1024
swap_file_size: 4G
swappiness: 1