diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
index eb467b06b6..6d5242e880 100644
--- a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 # cron job that syncs packages to koji
 #
 - name: put owner-sync-pagure in place
-  template: src=owner-sync-pagure.j2 dest=/usr/local/bin/owner-sync-pagure mode=0755
+  template: src=owner-sync-pagure.j2 dest=/usr/local/bin/owner-sync-pagure mode="0755"
   tags:
   - config
   - bodhi
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
   copy:
     src: koji_sync_listener.py
     dest: /usr/lib/python{{ py3ver }}/site-packages/koji_sync_listener.py
-    mode: 0644
+    mode: "0644"
   when: env == "production"
   tags:
   - bodhi
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
 #
 
 - name: put new-updates-sync in place
-  copy: src=new-updates-sync dest=/usr/local/bin/new-updates-sync mode=0755
+  copy: src=new-updates-sync dest=/usr/local/bin/new-updates-sync mode="0755"
   when: env == "production"
   tags:
   - config
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
   - cron
 
 - name: put bodhi-automated-pushes.py in place
-  copy: src=bodhi-automated-pushes.py dest=/usr/local/bin/bodhi-automated-pushes.py mode=0755
+  copy: src=bodhi-automated-pushes.py dest=/usr/local/bin/bodhi-automated-pushes.py mode="0755"
   when: env == "production"
   tags:
   - config
@@ -177,14 +177,14 @@
 
 # These next two are used by quick-fedora-mirror
 - name: put update-fullfiletimelist in place
-  copy: src="{{ files }}/scripts/update-fullfiletimelist" dest=/usr/local/bin/update-fullfiletimelist mode=0755
+  copy: src="{{ files }}/scripts/update-fullfiletimelist" dest=/usr/local/bin/update-fullfiletimelist mode="0755"
   when: env == "production"
   tags:
   - config
   - bodhi
   - cron
 - name: add create-filelist script from quick-fedora-mirror
-  copy: src="{{ files }}/scripts/create-filelist" dest=/usr/local/bin/create-filelist mode=0755
+  copy: src="{{ files }}/scripts/create-filelist" dest=/usr/local/bin/create-filelist mode="0755"
   when: env == "production"
   tags:
   - config
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
     dest="/etc/bodhi/logging.yaml"
     owner=apache
     group=apache
-    mode=0600
+    mode="0600"
   tags:
   - config
   - bodhi
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@
     dest: /etc/bodhi/production.ini
     owner: apache
     group: apache
-    mode: 0600
+    mode: "0600"
   tags:
   - config
   - bodhi
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
     dest: /etc/bodhi/celeryconfig.py
     owner: apache
     group: apache
-    mode: 0600
+    mode: "0600"
   tags:
   - config
   - bodhi
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@
     dest: /etc/fedora-messaging/config.toml
     owner: apache
     group: apache
-    mode: 0600
+    mode: "0600"
   tags:
   - config
   - bodhi
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
 - name: Create /etc/pki/fedora-messaging
   file:
     dest: /etc/pki/fedora-messaging
-    mode: 0775
+    mode: "0775"
     owner: root
     group: root
     state: directory
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
   copy:
     src: "{{ private }}/files/rabbitmq/{{env}}/pki/ca.crt"
     dest: /etc/pki/fedora-messaging/cacert.pem
-    mode: 0644
+    mode: "0644"
     owner: apache
     group: apache
   tags:
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
   copy:
     src: "{{ private }}/files/rabbitmq/{{env}}/pki/issued/bodhi{{env_suffix}}.crt"
     dest: /etc/pki/fedora-messaging/bodhi-cert.pem
-    mode: 0644
+    mode: "0644"
     owner: apache
     group: apache
   tags:
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
   copy:
     src: "{{ private }}/files/rabbitmq/{{env}}/pki/private/bodhi{{env_suffix}}.key"
     dest: /etc/pki/fedora-messaging/bodhi-key.pem
-    mode: 0600
+    mode: "0600"
     owner: apache
     group: apache
   tags:
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@
     path: /etc/systemd/system/fm-consumer@.service.d
     owner: root
     group: root
-    mode: 0755
+    mode: "0755"
   tags:
   - bodhi
   - config
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@
     dest: /etc/systemd/system/fm-consumer@.service.d/local.conf
     owner: root
     group: root
-    mode: 0644
+    mode: "0644"
   notify:
   - reload systemd
   tags:
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
     dest: /etc/systemd/system/bodhi-celery.service
     owner: root
     group: root
-    mode: 0644
+    mode: "0644"
   notify:
   - reload systemd
   tags: