How to disable swap in remote system using Ansible

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to configure the Kubernetes Cluster using the Ansible playbook. But Kubelet will not start if the system has swap enabled, so I need to disable swap. But how can I disable swap using Ansible?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can use the mount module in your playbook. This module is used to mount any drive to a folder. But we can use this module to remove swapfile as well. You can see the below example.

  - name: Remove swapfile from /etc/fstab
    mount:
      name: "{{ item }}"
      fstype: swap
      state: absent
    with_items:
      - swap