diff --git a/playbooks/groups/proxies.yml b/playbooks/groups/proxies.yml
index be357165d0..3ef93e8488 100644
--- a/playbooks/groups/proxies.yml
+++ b/playbooks/groups/proxies.yml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 
   roles:
   - httpd/proxy
-
+  - varnish
 
 # After setting up the "basics" of the proxy hosts above, here below we break
 # out the proxy-specific configuration into a couple different sub-playbooks.