diff --git a/roles/kubernetes/node/defaults/main.yml b/roles/kubernetes/node/defaults/main.yml
index 4b6ed6b14182c19cde9c830c7ec47bab7c6c9763..05a34cec1f42889b03adb09983d83ea49c7a1f18 100644
--- a/roles/kubernetes/node/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/kubernetes/node/defaults/main.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ kubelet_enforce_node_allocatable: "\"\""
 # Note that PID namespace sharing requires docker >= 1.13.1.
 kubelet_disable_shared_pid: true
 
+### fail with swap on (default true)
+kubelet_fail_swap_on: true
+
 # Reserve this space for system resources
 kubelet_memory_limit: 256M
 kubelet_cpu_limit: 100m
diff --git a/roles/kubernetes/node/templates/kubelet.kubeadm.env.j2 b/roles/kubernetes/node/templates/kubelet.kubeadm.env.j2
index 817c8a34a6d3a0deda805a7e58d67729b7937499..57a8004719793a9c3f20f2b2253b51fe4ca52676 100644
--- a/roles/kubernetes/node/templates/kubelet.kubeadm.env.j2
+++ b/roles/kubernetes/node/templates/kubelet.kubeadm.env.j2
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ KUBELET_HOSTNAME="--hostname-override={{ kube_override_hostname }}"
 --node-status-update-frequency={{ kubelet_status_update_frequency }} \
 --cgroup-driver={{ kubelet_cgroup_driver|default(kubelet_cgroup_driver_detected) }} \
 --docker-disable-shared-pid={{ kubelet_disable_shared_pid }} \
+--fail-swap-on={{ kubelet_fail_swap_on|default(true)}} \
 {% endset %}
 
 {# Node reserved CPU/memory #}
diff --git a/roles/kubernetes/node/templates/kubelet.standard.env.j2 b/roles/kubernetes/node/templates/kubelet.standard.env.j2
index 574a541ba1a4e1447b9ab43d0bfa090019ca51ad..677b886c2ad44f591a20e6a9be159b3b0e2226b7 100644
--- a/roles/kubernetes/node/templates/kubelet.standard.env.j2
+++ b/roles/kubernetes/node/templates/kubelet.standard.env.j2
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ KUBELET_HOSTNAME="--hostname-override={{ kube_override_hostname }}"
 {% endif %}
 --cgroup-driver={{ kubelet_cgroup_driver|default(kubelet_cgroup_driver_detected) }} \
 --cgroups-per-qos={{ kubelet_cgroups_per_qos }} \
+--fail-swap-on={{ kubelet_fail_swap_on|default(true)}} \
 --enforce-node-allocatable={{ kubelet_enforce_node_allocatable }} {% endif %}{% endset %}
 
 {# DNS settings for kubelet #}