diff --git a/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml b/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
index d28001bd20..336fa5438c 100644
--- a/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
+++ b/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@
     - rootpw
   - name: Set the hostname
     action: hostname name={{ controller_hostname }}
-  - name: Deploy root private SSH key
-    copy: src={{ private }}/files/openstack/fed-cloud09-root.key dest=/root/.ssh/id_rsa mode=600 owner=root group=root
+#  - name: Deploy root private SSH key
+#    copy: src={{ private }}/files/openstack/fed-cloud09-root.key dest=/root/.ssh/id_rsa mode=600 owner=root group=root
 
   - name: install core pkgs
     action: yum state=present pkg={{ item }}