diff --git a/tools/gate/playbooks/deploy-yq/tasks/main.yaml b/tools/gate/playbooks/deploy-yq/tasks/main.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e16dbec5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/gate/playbooks/deploy-yq/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Copyright 2017 The Openstack-Helm Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+- block:
+    - name: ensuring jq is deployed on host
+      include_role:
+        name: deploy-package
+        tasks_from: dist
+      vars:
+        packages:
+          deb:
+            - jq
+          rpm:
+            - jq
+    - name: removing jq binary on centos
+      become: true
+      become_user: root
+      when: ansible_distribution == 'CentOS' or ansible_distribution == 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux'
+      file:
+        path: "{{ item }}"
+        state: absent
+      with_items:
+        - /usr/bin/jq
+    - name: installing jq 1.5 binary for centos
+      become: true
+      become_user: root
+      when: ansible_distribution == 'CentOS' or ansible_distribution == 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux'
+      get_url:
+        url: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases/download/jq-1.5/jq-linux64
+        dest: /usr/bin/jq
+        mode: 0555
diff --git a/tools/gate/playbooks/zuul-pre.yaml b/tools/gate/playbooks/zuul-pre.yaml
index 4d8875ead..76c7b46cf 100644
--- a/tools/gate/playbooks/zuul-pre.yaml
+++ b/tools/gate/playbooks/zuul-pre.yaml
@@ -46,10 +46,12 @@
     - setup-firewall
     - deploy-python-pip
     - deploy-docker
+    - deploy-yq
   tags:
     - setup-firewall
     - deploy-python-pip
     - deploy-docker
+    - deploy-yq
 
 - hosts: all
   vars_files: