diff --git a/playbooks/zuul/run-production-playbook.yaml b/playbooks/zuul/run-production-playbook.yaml
index 11b5fd5e5e..3ff8346ba5 100644
--- a/playbooks/zuul/run-production-playbook.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/zuul/run-production-playbook.yaml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
         name: bridge.openstack.org
         ansible_python_interpreter: python3
         ansible_user: zuul
+        # Without setting ansible_host directly, mirror-workspace-git-repos
+        # gets sad because if delegate_to localhost and with add_host that
+        # ends up with ansible_host being localhost. 
+        ansible_host: bridge.openstack.org
         ansible_port: 22
 
 - hosts: localhost