diff --git a/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
index 08bd32efee..49f9a371ed 100644
--- a/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
 
 - name: letsencrypt cert
   include_role: name=copr/certbot
-  when: devel
+  when: devel|bool
   tags:
   - config
 
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
 
 - name: testing fixture
   copy: dest="/home/copr/cloud/ec2rc.variable" content=""
-  when: devel
+  when: devel|bool
 
 - name: copy copr-be.conf
   template: src="copr-be.conf.j2" dest=/etc/copr/copr-be.conf  owner=root group=copr mode=640
diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml
index 1ed65a922d..a3d78cd789 100644
--- a/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
 # development servers use Let's Encrypt
 - name: install letsencrypt ssl certificates for dev
   include_role: name=copr/certbot
-  when: devel
+  when: devel|bool
   tags:
   - config
 
@@ -129,11 +129,11 @@
   - crond
 
 - name: set dev banner for dev instance
-  when: devel
+  when: devel|bool
   copy: src=banner-include.html dest=/var/lib/copr/
 
 - name: disallow robots on dev instance
-  when: devel
+  when: devel|bool
   copy: src=robots.txt dest=/var/www/html/
 
 - name: rebuild indexes
diff --git a/roles/copr/keygen/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/keygen/tasks/main.yml
index 8c9f367bc8..0f1d274e98 100644
--- a/roles/copr/keygen/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/keygen/tasks/main.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 #- name: mount up disk of copr repo (devel)
 #mount: name=/var/lib/copr-keygen src='UUID=9e2b4c55-9ec3-4508-af46-a40f3a5bd982' fstype=ext4 state=mounted
-#when: devel
+#when: devel|devel
 
 - name: install copr-keygen
   dnf: state=present name=copr-keygen