diff --git a/playbooks/groups/jenkins-cloud.yml b/playbooks/groups/jenkins-cloud.yml
index 005610d8af..347e15d73d 100644
--- a/playbooks/groups/jenkins-cloud.yml
+++ b/playbooks/groups/jenkins-cloud.yml
@@ -95,11 +95,6 @@
     tags:
      - config
 
-  - name: set the jenkins port to 80 instead of 8080
-    action: command sed -i -e 's|JENKINS_PORT="8080"|JENKINS_PORT="80"|' /etc/sysconfig/jenkins
-    tags:
-    - config
-
   - name: add jenkins ssh priv key so it can connect to clients
     action: copy src=$private/files/jenkins/ssh/jenkins_master dest=/root/.ssh/id_rsa mode=600
     tags: