diff --git a/ansible/seed-vm-provision.yml b/ansible/seed-vm-provision.yml
index 581f2c018..cbe19308b 100644
--- a/ansible/seed-vm-provision.yml
+++ b/ansible/seed-vm-provision.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
   hosts: seed-hypervisor
   vars:
     seed_host: "{{ groups['seed'][0] }}"
-    seed_user_data_path: "{{ image_cache_path }}/seed-vm-user-data"
   pre_tasks:
     - name: Verify the seed host exists in the Ansible inventory
       fail:
@@ -20,6 +19,12 @@
         group: "{{ ansible_user_gid }}"
       become: True
 
+    - name: Create a temporary user data file locally
+      tempfile:
+        state: file
+      register: seed_user_data_file
+      delegate_to: localhost
+
     # The user data script is used to bring up the network interfaces that will
     # be configured by metadata in the configdrive. For some reason resolv.conf
     # gets configured with 660 permissions, so fix that here also.
@@ -34,7 +39,8 @@
           {% endfor %}
           # Fix permissions of resolv.conf.
           chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf
-        dest: "{{ seed_user_data_path }}"
+        dest: "{{ seed_user_data_file.path }}"
+      delegate_to: localhost
 
   roles:
     - role: jriguera.configdrive
@@ -55,7 +61,7 @@
         {{ hostvars[seed_host].network_interfaces |
            map('net_configdrive_network_device', seed_host) |
            list }}
-      configdrive_config_user_data_path: "{{ seed_user_data_path }}"
+      configdrive_config_user_data_path: "{{ seed_user_data_file.path }}"
 
   tasks:
     - name: Set a fact containing the configdrive image path
@@ -73,9 +79,16 @@
         path: "{{ item }}"
         state: absent
       with_items:
-        - "{{ seed_user_data_path }}"
         - "{{ image_cache_path }}/{{ seed_host | to_uuid }}.gz"
 
+    - name: Ensure unnecessary local files are removed
+      file:
+        path: "{{ item }}"
+        state: absent
+      with_items:
+        - "{{ seed_user_data_file.path }}"
+      delegate_to: localhost
+
 - name: Ensure that the seed VM is provisioned
   hosts: seed-hypervisor
   vars:
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/fix-remote-seed-vm-provisioning-faa8de569ca6bc89.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/fix-remote-seed-vm-provisioning-faa8de569ca6bc89.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70a910514
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/fix-remote-seed-vm-provisioning-faa8de569ca6bc89.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+issues:
+  - |
+    Fixes an issue where provisioning a seed VM would fail when the Ansible
+    control host and the seed hypervisor are different hosts. `See story
+    2007530 <https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2007530>`_ for more
+    details.