diff --git a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/bodhi.yml b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/bodhi.yml
index d2243c576d..dfb787f7ea 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/bodhi.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/bodhi.yml
@@ -135,10 +135,10 @@
   tasks:
   - name: Scale up pods
     command: oc -n bodhi scale dc/bodhi-web --replicas={{ groupvars['bodhi2']['openshift_pods'] }}
-    when: migrations and env != "staging"
+    when: env != "staging"
   - name: Scale up pods
     command: oc -n bodhi scale dc/bodhi-web --replicas={{ groupvars['bodhi2-stg']['openshift_pods'] }}
-    when: migrations and env == "staging"
+    when: env == "staging"
 
   post_tasks:
   - name: tell nagios to unshush w.r.t. the frontend