diff --git a/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml b/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
index 9f4a18999e..aef0496348 100644
--- a/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
+++ b/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
@@ -159,10 +159,6 @@
   - service: name=ntpd state=started enabled=yes
 
   # this two step can be done in one, but Ansible will then always show the action as changed
-  - name: download RDO release package
-    get_url: url=https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-icehouse/rdo-release-icehouse-4.noarch.rpm dest=/root/
-  - yum: state=present name=/root/rdo-release-icehouse-4.noarch.rpm
-
   - name: make sure epel-release is installed
     get_url: url=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm dest=/root/
   - yum: state=present name=/root/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm