diff --git a/roles/fedmsg/gateway/slave/tasks/main.yml b/roles/fedmsg/gateway/slave/tasks/main.yml
index d434371f94..5cbeffaa5a 100644
--- a/roles/fedmsg/gateway/slave/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/fedmsg/gateway/slave/tasks/main.yml
@@ -63,8 +63,14 @@
   - fedmsg/gateway
   - fedmsg/gateway/slave
 
-- name: start it
+- name: start the gateway for raw zeromq traffic
   service: name=fedmsg-gateway state=started enabled=yes
   tags:
   - fedmsg/gateway
   - fedmsg/gateway/slave
+
+- name: start stunnel for websockets traffic
+  service: name=stunnel state=started enabled=yes
+  tags:
+  - fedmsg/gateway
+  - fedmsg/gateway/slave