How to fix – How to fix - ERROR Swap running with swap on is not supported. Please disable swap

calendar Apr 24, 2020 · 1 min read · Kubernetes  ·
Last Modified : Apr 24, 2020
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Author :  Rahul Wagh

The root cause for the error is swapping is on master as well as worker node.

Fixing the error

Step 1 - Disable the swap on both master and worker node (please run the below command on both master and worker node)

1vagrant@master:~$ sudo swapoff -a


Step 2 - After disabling the swap, re-run the kubeadm init

1vagrant@master:~$ sudo kubeadm init --apiserver-advertise-address=100.0.0.1 --pod-network-cidr=10.244.0.0/16

After that you should be able to initialize the kubernetes cluster successfully

 1Your Kubernetes control-plane has initialized successfully!
 2
 3To start using your cluster, you need to run the following as a regular user:
 4
 5  mkdir -p $HOME/.kube
 6  sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config
 7  sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config
 8
 9You should now deploy a pod network to the cluster.
10Run "kubectl apply -f [podnetwork].yaml" with one of the options listed at:
11  https://;kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/addons/

[ERROR Swap]: running with swap on is not supported
[ERROR Swap]: running with swap on is not supported



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