diff --git a/playbooks/hosts/copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml b/playbooks/hosts/copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
index 4cd9919400..89236956df 100644
--- a/playbooks/hosts/copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
+++ b/playbooks/hosts/copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
@@ -122,10 +122,10 @@
     - restart lighttpd
 
   - name: start webserver
-    action: service state=running enabled=yes name=lighttpd
+    service: state=running enabled=yes name=lighttpd
 
   - name: start fail2ban
-    action: service state=running enabled=yes name=fail2ban
+    service: state=running enabled=yes name=fail2ban
 
   # setup dirs for the ansible execution off of provisioning
   - name: dirs from provision
@@ -209,6 +209,6 @@
   - name: chmod_key
     action: file path=/etc/lighttpd/coprs-be.fedoraproject.org.pem owner=root group=root mode=0600
   - name: restart copr-backend
-    action: service: name=copr-backend state=restarted
+    service: name=copr-backend state=restarted
   - name: restart lighttpd
-    action: service: name=lighttpd state=restarted
+    service: name=lighttpd state=restarted