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https://github.com/juju4/ansible-swap
setup swap from file, for example for low-memory VPS
https://github.com/juju4/ansible-swap
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setup swap from file, for example for low-memory VPS
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/juju4/ansible-swap
- Owner: juju4
- License: bsd-2-clause
- Created: 2016-04-10T02:13:28.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-11-24T19:50:27.000Z (2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-24T20:23:27.148Z (2 months ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 53.7 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Add swap to a system ansible role
A simple ansible role to setup swap from file
For example, for VPS.
## Requirements & Dependencies
### Ansible
It was tested on the following versions:
* 1.9
* 2.0
* 2.2
* 2.5
* 2.10
### Operating systems
Tested Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 and centos7
## Example Playbook
Just include this role in your list.
For example
```
- host: all
roles:
- juju4.swap
```
## Variables
```
swap_file: /var/tmp/extraswap
## size in MB
swap_size: 1024
```
## Continuous integration
This role has a travis basic test (for github), more advanced with kitchen and also a Vagrantfile (test/vagrant).
Once you ensured all necessary roles are present, You can test with:
```
$ cd /path/to/roles/juju4.swap
$ kitchen verify
$ kitchen login
```
or
```
$ cd /path/to/roles/juju4.swap/test/vagrant
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
```
## Troubleshooting & Known issues
* swapon is failing on lxc inside digitalocean vps but only on ubuntu trusty
```
swapon: /var/tmp/extraswap: swapon failed: Operation not permitted
```
works fine with xenial or centos7
## License
BSD 2-clause