diff --git a/playbooks/hosts/artboard.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml b/playbooks/hosts/artboard.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
index 6721a171fb..b6ef3658c3 100644
--- a/playbooks/hosts/artboard.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
+++ b/playbooks/hosts/artboard.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
     action: copy src=$files/artboard/artboard-backup dest=/etc/cron.daily/artboard-backup mode=0755
 
   - name: make artboard subdir 
-    action: file path=/srv/persist/artboard mode=0755
+    action: file path=/srv/persist/artboard mode=0755 state=directory
 
   - name: link artboard into /var/www/html
     action: file state=link src=/srv/persist/artboard path=/var/www/html/artboard