diff --git a/tasks/yumrepos.yml b/tasks/yumrepos.yml
index 3836f3cad0..7d8d0702dd 100644
--- a/tasks/yumrepos.yml
+++ b/tasks/yumrepos.yml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 
 - name: add infrastructure tags repo - RHEL
   copy: src="{{ files }}/common/rhel-infra-tags.repo" dest="/etc/yum.repos.d/infra-tags.repo"
-  when: ansible_distribution == 'RedHat'
+  when: ((ansible_distribution == 'RedHat' or ansible_distribution == 'CentOS') and use_default_epel)
   tags:
   - config
   - packages