diff --git a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/bodhi.yml b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/bodhi.yml
index ee72dc5797..57e3518386 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/bodhi.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/bodhi.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
   tasks:
   - set_fact:
       # This will be a bool that indicates whether we need to run migrations or not.
-      migrations: '(head)' not in hostvars['bodhi-backend01{{ env_suffix }}.phx2.fedoraproject.org']['current_migration_version'].stdout
+      migrations: "'(head)' not in hostvars['bodhi-backend01{{ env_suffix }}.phx2.fedoraproject.org']['current_migration_version'].stdout"
   - name: Scale down to 0 pods
     command: oc -n bodhi scale dc/bodhi-web --replicas=0
     when: migrations