diff --git a/roles/cloud_compute/tasks/main.yml b/roles/cloud_compute/tasks/main.yml
index eefa77cb06..70ed2cca21 100644
--- a/roles/cloud_compute/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/cloud_compute/tasks/main.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 - authorized_key: user=root key="{{ lookup('file', files + '/fedora-cloud/fed09-ssh-key.pub') }}"
 - template: src={{ files }}/fedora-cloud/hosts dest=/etc/hosts owner=root mode=0644
+- lineinfile: dest=/etc/hosts  line="{{ controller_private_ip }}      fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org"
 
 - lineinfile: dest=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 regexp="^ONBOOT=" line="ONBOOT=yes"
   notify: