diff --git a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/tagger.yml b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/tagger.yml
index 985c6a86b6..509b6a3f38 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/tagger.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/tagger.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     command: /usr/bin/alembic -c /usr/share/fedoratagger/alembic.ini upgrade head
     args:
       chdir: /usr/share/fedoratagger/
-    when: inventory_hostname_short == 'tagger01'
+    when: inventory_hostname.startswith('tagger01')
 
   - service: name="httpd" state=started