diff --git a/tasks/transient_cloud.yml b/tasks/transient_cloud.yml
index e592c3ee0a..180235b54d 100644
--- a/tasks/transient_cloud.yml
+++ b/tasks/transient_cloud.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   register: inst_res
 
 - name: add it to the special group
-  local_action: add_host hostname='${inst_res.instances[0].public_ip}' groupname=tmp_just_created
+  local_action: add_host hostname="{{ inst_res.instances[0].public_ip }}" groupname=tmp_just_created
 
 - name: mail off about where it is
   local_action: mail to=sysadmin-main-members@fedoraproject.org from=ansible-create@fedoraproject.org subject=${inst_res.instances[0].public_ip} msg="cloud instance created on ${inst_res.instances[0].public_ip}\n instance id - ${inst_res.instances[0].id} "