diff --git a/playbooks/roles/install-docker/tasks/main.yaml b/playbooks/roles/install-docker/tasks/main.yaml
index 91b08590a8..8d9b9a7a7e 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/install-docker/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/install-docker/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -17,6 +17,20 @@
 
 # We install docker-compose from pypi to get features like
 # stop_grace_period.
+
+# On arm64 we need build-essential, python3-dev, libffi-dev, and libssl-dev
+# because wheels don't exist for all the things on arm64
+
+- name: Install arm64 dev pacakges
+  when: ansible_architecture == 'aarch64'
+  package:
+    name:
+      - build-essential
+      - python3-dev
+      - libffi-dev
+      - libssl-dev
+    state: present
+
 - name: ensure pip3 is installed
   include_role:
     name: pip3