diff --git a/roles/copr/backend/tasks/install_cloud_cert.yml b/roles/copr/backend/tasks/install_cloud_cert.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2dbcf86c9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/copr/backend/tasks/install_cloud_cert.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+- name: copy .pem
+  copy: src=files/fedora-cloud/fed-cloud09.pem  dest=/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
+
+- name: update certificates
+  command: /usr/bin/update-ca-trust
diff --git a/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
index 76feeaa400..5113cf20d6 100644
--- a/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -174,5 +174,9 @@
   shell: "chown -R copr:copr /var/lib/copr/public_html"
   when: copr_results_dir_st.stat.pw_name != "copr"
 
+- name: install cert to access fed-cloud09
+  # TODO: remove this when fed-cloud09 receives external cert
+  include: install_cloud_cert.yml
+
 - name: set acl for logstash to access httpd logs
   acl: name=/var/log/lighttpd entity=logstash etype=user permissions=rx state=present