diff --git a/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml b/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
index a21ed13a30..cea3e383b8 100644
--- a/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
+++ b/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@
   # https://openstack.redhat.com/Securing_services#qpid
   #### FIXME 
   #it seems that packstack use rabbitmq, but it is not enabled nor configured
-
+  - service: name=rabbitmq-server state=started
+ 
   # configure cider with multi back-end
   # https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/5/html/Cloud_Administrator_Guide/section_manage-volumes.html
   - lineinfile: dest=/etc/cinder/cinder.conf regexp="^enabled_backends" insertafter="^#enabled_backends" line="enabled_backends=equallogic-1,lvmdriver-1"