diff --git a/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/config-nova-fake.yml b/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/config-nova-fake.yml
index e3fb87b2cf..e807134d9e 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/config-nova-fake.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/config-nova-fake.yml
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
     recurse: yes
     owner: "{{ config_owner_user }}"
     group: "{{ config_owner_group }}"
-  become: true
   with_sequence: start=1 end={{ num_nova_fake_per_node }}
   notify:
     - Restart nova-compute-fake containers