diff --git a/tests/roles/bootstrap-host/tasks/prepare_aio_config.yml b/tests/roles/bootstrap-host/tasks/prepare_aio_config.yml
index 16eedead52..2d7f8d50ec 100644
--- a/tests/roles/bootstrap-host/tasks/prepare_aio_config.yml
+++ b/tests/roles/bootstrap-host/tasks/prepare_aio_config.yml
@@ -78,6 +78,13 @@
     - nodepool_dir.stat.exists
     - bootstrap_host_ubuntu_repo is defined
 
+- name: Set the package cache timeout to 60 mins in OpenStack-CI
+  set_fact:
+    cache_timeout: 3600
+  when:
+    - cache_timeout is not defined
+    - nodepool_dir.stat.exists
+
 - name: Determine if the host has a global pip config file
   stat:
     path: /etc/pip.conf
diff --git a/tests/roles/bootstrap-host/templates/user_variables.aio.yml.j2 b/tests/roles/bootstrap-host/templates/user_variables.aio.yml.j2
index 0c2751cb99..38067a202b 100644
--- a/tests/roles/bootstrap-host/templates/user_variables.aio.yml.j2
+++ b/tests/roles/bootstrap-host/templates/user_variables.aio.yml.j2
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ repo_build_pip_extra_indexes:
 uca_apt_repo_url: {{ uca_apt_repo_url }}
 {% endif %}
 
+{% if cache_timeout is defined %}
+## Package cache timeout
+cache_timeout: {{ cache_timeout }}
+{% endif %}
+
 ## Instruct the gate to always build libvirt-python from pip source
 repo_build_pip_no_binary:
   - libvirt-python