java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace error installing Atlassian JIRA using Ansible

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Greetings. I realize that much of this is going to sound crazy and a little noob-ish, but…
I’m playing with Ansible for the first time, and I’m trying to automate the installation of a JIRA server (on Windows, mind you). I went through all the rigmarole of enabling WinRM with a self-signed certificate, and Ansible is now communicating with hosts in the inventory.

The JIRA installer uses an install4j executable with a response.varfile for unattended installations. So I built a quick and dirty jira.yaml file that runs the JIRA installer with arguments “-q -varfile response.varfile” using the ‘raw’ module. I have successfully gotten it to download the JIRA installer from Atlassian using the win_get_url module. I have successfully gotten Ansible to copy the response.varfile to the destination server. However, when I call the ‘raw’ module to run the install I get java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace and the installer quits. Any ideas? Running the installer from the command line with the same arguments works without the out of memory errors.

Thank you in advance.

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WinRM enforces a job memory quota (documented here) that you’ll probably need to adjust upward for a heavyweight installer like Jira. Also, if you’re running Powershell 3.0, there’s a hotfix that fixes that setting on some OSs, though I’d recommend just upgrading to PS4 or 5 instead of messing with the hotfix.

-Matt