diff --git a/ansible/roles/haproxy/templates/haproxy_run.sh.j2 b/ansible/roles/haproxy/templates/haproxy_run.sh.j2
index 9419e70e67..6c2e1feef0 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/haproxy/templates/haproxy_run.sh.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/haproxy/templates/haproxy_run.sh.j2
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash -x
-{% set haproxy_cmd='/usr/sbin/haproxy -W -db' if kolla_base_distro in ['ubuntu']  else '/usr/sbin/haproxy-systemd-wrapper' %}
+{% set haproxy_cmd='/usr/sbin/haproxy -W -db' if kolla_base_distro in ['debian', 'ubuntu']  else '/usr/sbin/haproxy-systemd-wrapper' %}
 
 # We need to run haproxy with one `-f` for each service, because including an
 # entire config directory was not a feature until version 1.7 of HAProxy.