diff --git a/playbooks/roles/ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_Debian.yml b/playbooks/roles/ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_Debian.yml
index 5e27827f8..9c242ae5a 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_Debian.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_Debian.yml
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ required_packages:
   - amtterm
   - sgabios
   - libvirt-bin
+  - debootstrap
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_RedHat.yml b/playbooks/roles/ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_RedHat.yml
index 8f5adcad4..53a96ac9e 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_RedHat.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_RedHat.yml
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ required_packages:
   - sgabios-bin
 # NOTE(cinerama): amtterm is not currently packaged for RHEL/CentOS 7.
   - libvirt-daemon
+  - debootstrap