diff --git a/scripts/gate-check-lint.sh b/scripts/gate-check-lint.sh
index 4b394e7a5c..457b502fd9 100755
--- a/scripts/gate-check-lint.sh
+++ b/scripts/gate-check-lint.sh
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ fi
 # Ignores the following rules due to how ansible modules work in general
 #     F403 'from ansible.module_utils.basic import *' used; unable to detect undefined names
 #     H303  No wildcard (*) import.
-flake8 --ignore=F403,H303 $(grep -rln -e '^#!/usr/bin/env python' -e '^#!/bin/python' -e '^#!/usr/bin/python' * )
-
+# NOTE:
+#     Template files are skipped because they are python executables potentially with Jinja2
+#     expressions and the jinja2 causes a flake8 failures.
+flake8 --ignore=F403,H303 $(grep -rln -e '^#!/usr/bin/env python' -e '^#!/bin/python' -e '^#!/usr/bin/python' * | grep -v 'templates/')
 
 # Create keys if they don't already exist.
 ssh_key_create
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index fa049a21f6..2f2b138e51 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -30,10 +30,12 @@ commands =
         --exclude-dir '.*' \
         --exclude-dir '*.egg' \
         --exclude-dir '*.egg-info' \
+        --exclude-dir '*templates' \
         --exclude 'tox.ini' \
         --exclude '*.sh' \
         {toxinidir} | xargs flake8 --verbose"
 
+
 [flake8]
 # Ignores the following rules due to how ansible modules work in general
 #     F403 'from ansible.module_utils.basic import *' used; unable to detect undefined names