diff --git a/playbooks/common-tasks/set-pip-upstream-url.yml b/playbooks/common-tasks/set-pip-upstream-url.yml
index 255a049160..7fdc0353e2 100644
--- a/playbooks/common-tasks/set-pip-upstream-url.yml
+++ b/playbooks/common-tasks/set-pip-upstream-url.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 - name: Set pip upstream URL
   set_fact:
     pip_upstream_url: "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py"
-    pip_lock_to_internal_repo: false
   when:
     - pip_upstream_url != "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py"
     - (_repo_data_check.status | default(503)) != 200
diff --git a/playbooks/common-tasks/set-upper-constraints.yml b/playbooks/common-tasks/set-upper-constraints.yml
index e868b28cae..50cd96ae77 100644
--- a/playbooks/common-tasks/set-upper-constraints.yml
+++ b/playbooks/common-tasks/set-upper-constraints.yml
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@
 - name: Fallback to PyPI
   set_fact:
     pip_default_index: "https://pypi.python.org/simple"
-    pip_lock_to_internal_repo: False
   when: (pip_default_index_check.status | default(503)) != 200
   tags:
     - common-constraints