diff --git a/files/jenkins/master/config.xml b/files/jenkins/master/config.xml
index 4da63a4193..dd8e78a775 100644
--- a/files/jenkins/master/config.xml
+++ b/files/jenkins/master/config.xml
@@ -94,6 +94,22 @@ class="jenkins.model.ProjectNamingStrategy$DefaultProjectNamingStrategy"/>
        <label></label>
        <nodeProperties/>
      </slave>
+     <slave>
+        <name>EL7-beta</name>
+        <description></description>
+        <remoteFS>/mnt/jenkins/</remoteFS>
+        <numExecutors>2</numExecutors>
+        <mode>NORMAL</mode>
+        <retentionStrategy class="hudson.slaves.RetentionStrategy$Always"/>
+        <launcher class="hudson.plugins.sshslaves.SSHLauncher"
+        plugin="ssh-slaves@0.21">
+          <host>172.16.5.14</host>
+          <port>22</port>
+          <credentialsId>950d5dd7-acb2-402a-8670-21f152d04928</credentialsId>
+        </launcher>
+        <label></label>
+        <nodeProperties/>
+      </slave>
   </slaves>
   <quietPeriod>5</quietPeriod>
   <scmCheckoutRetryCount>0</scmCheckoutRetryCount>