diff --git a/roles/releng/files/epel8-playgorund b/roles/releng/files/epel8-playgorund
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ef9ed572d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/releng/files/epel8-playgorund
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# epel8-playground compose
+MAILTO=releng-cron@lists.fedoraproject.org
+15 5 * * * root TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/epel8-playground.XXXXXX` && cd $TMPDIR && git clone https://pagure.io/pungi-fedora.git && cd pungi-fedora && git checkout epel8-playground && /usr/local/bin/lock-wrapper epel8-playground-compose "PYTHONMALLOC=debug LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ./epel8-playground-nightly.sh"
diff --git a/roles/releng/tasks/main.yml b/roles/releng/tasks/main.yml
index ebf1e52be3..c03d3ea19c 100644
--- a/roles/releng/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/releng/tasks/main.yml
@@ -204,6 +204,11 @@
   copy: src="rawhide-iot" dest=/etc/cron.d/rawhide-iot
   when: inventory_hostname.startswith('compose-iot-01')
 
+# put cron job in for epel8-playground compose
+- name: epel8-playground compose cron
+  copy: src="epel8-playground" dest=/etc/cron.d/epel8-playground
+  when: inventory_hostname.startswith('branched-composer')
+
 - name: install compose /etc/httpd/conf.d/compose.conf file
   copy: >
     src="compose.conf"