diff --git a/playbooks/hosts/hrf.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml b/playbooks/hosts/hrf.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
index d34ba13be7..43c66a1004 100644
--- a/playbooks/hosts/hrf.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
+++ b/playbooks/hosts/hrf.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
       shell: chkconfig fail2ban on && service fail2ban start
 
     - name: clone the flask repo
-      git: repo=git://github.com/fedora-infra/hrf.git dest=/srv/www/hrf
+      git: repo=git://github.com/fedora-infra/hrf.git dest=/srv/www/hrf accept_hostkey=true
 
     - name: enable port 80
       command: lokkit -p '80:tcp'