diff --git a/tools/prep-apply.sh b/tools/prep-apply.sh
index ccb0857624..1f523ed585 100644
--- a/tools/prep-apply.sh
+++ b/tools/prep-apply.sh
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ declare -A INTEGRATION_MODULES
 
 source $MODULE_ENV_FILE
 
-virtualenv --system-site-packages /tmp/apply-ansible-env
+python3 -m virtualenv -p python3 --system-site-packages /tmp/apply-ansible-env
 /tmp/apply-ansible-env/bin/pip install ansible
 # Install puppet
 ansible_root=$(mktemp -d)