diff --git a/playbooks/service-eavesdrop.yaml b/playbooks/service-eavesdrop.yaml
index b1bff46884..7fccfa317c 100644
--- a/playbooks/service-eavesdrop.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/service-eavesdrop.yaml
@@ -13,5 +13,11 @@
     - install-docker
     - accessbot
     - gerritbot
-    - name: puppet-run
-      manifest: /opt/system-config/production/manifests/eavesdrop.pp
+# NOTE(ianw) 2021-06-02
+#  We have disabled puppet because we are updating
+#  meetbot to python3, and we don't want to trigger
+#  pip trying to re-install it on the production server
+#  in case it tries to use python3 (even if we install from
+#  a tag, we're not sure puppet won't start using pip3 to install).
+#    - name: puppet-run
+#      manifest: /opt/system-config/production/manifests/eavesdrop.pp