diff --git a/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/config.yml b/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/config.yml
index 8e2e7a8756..ab9981e83a 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/config.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/config.yml
@@ -66,10 +66,13 @@
     - "nova-scheduler"
     - "nova-spicehtml5proxy"
 
-- name: Copying over libvirtd.conf
+- name: Copying over libvirt configuration
   template:
-    src: "libvirtd.conf.j2"
-    dest: "{{ node_config_directory }}/nova-libvirt/libvirtd.conf"
+    src: "{{ item.src }}"
+    dest: "{{ node_config_directory }}/nova-libvirt/{{ item.dest }}"
+  with_items:
+    - { src: "qemu.conf.j2", dest: "qemu.conf" }
+    - { src: "libvirtd.conf.j2", dest: "libvirtd.conf" }
 
 - name: Copying files for nova-ssh
   template:
diff --git a/ansible/roles/nova/templates/nova-libvirt.json.j2 b/ansible/roles/nova/templates/nova-libvirt.json.j2
index abc3159005..dca7056b27 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/nova/templates/nova-libvirt.json.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/nova/templates/nova-libvirt.json.j2
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@
             "dest": "/etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf",
             "owner": "root",
             "perm": "0644"
+        },
+        {
+            "source": "{{ container_config_directory }}/qemu.conf",
+            "dest": "/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf",
+            "owner": "root",
+            "perm": "0644"
         }{% if enable_ceph | bool %},
         {
             "source": "{{ container_config_directory }}/secrets",
diff --git a/ansible/roles/nova/templates/qemu.conf.j2 b/ansible/roles/nova/templates/qemu.conf.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/docker/base/Dockerfile.j2 b/docker/base/Dockerfile.j2
index cddca0b650..cd147b43a3 100644
--- a/docker/base/Dockerfile.j2
+++ b/docker/base/Dockerfile.j2
@@ -38,12 +38,9 @@ COPY kibana.yum.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/kibana.yum.repo
 # Turns on MariaDB repos throughout the RPM build
 COPY mariadb.yum.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo
 
-COPY ceph.yum.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/ceph.repo
-
 RUN yum -y install http://repo.percona.com/release/7/RPMS/x86_64/percona-release-0.1-3.noarch.rpm
 
 RUN rpm --import http://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB \
-    && rpm --import https://download.ceph.com/keys/release.asc \
     && rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-Percona \
     && rpm --import https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
 
@@ -67,8 +64,14 @@ RUN yum-config-manager --enable rhel-7-server-rpms \
     {% if base_distro == 'centos' %}
 
 RUN rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 \
-    && yum install -y epel-release yum-plugin-priorities \
+    && yum install -y \
+         epel-release \
+         yum-plugin-priorities \
+         centos-release-ceph-hammer \
+         centos-release-qemu-ev \
     && rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7 \
+    && rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Storage \
+    && rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization \
     && yum clean all
 
     {% endif %}
@@ -79,7 +82,7 @@ RUN rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7 \
 # Enable couple required repositories for all RHEL builds
 # Turn on EPEL throughout the build
 RUN yum install -y \
-        https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm \
+        https://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm \
     && rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7 \
     && yum -y install yum-plugin-priorities \
     && yum clean all \
@@ -92,12 +95,23 @@ RUN yum install -y \
     {% if base_distro == 'oraclelinux' %}
 
 COPY oraclelinux-extras.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/oraclelinux-extras.repo
+
 RUN yum install -y \
         tar \
         yum-utils \
-        https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm \
+        http://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm \
+    && yum clean all \
+    && rpm -Uvh --nodeps \
+        http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-openstack-mitaka-1-2.el7.centos.noarch.rpm \
+        http://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-ceph-hammer-1.0-5.el7.centos.noarch.rpm \
+        http://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-qemu-ev-1.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm \
+        http://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-virt-common-1-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm \
+        http://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-storage-common-1-2.el7.centos.noarch.rpm \
+    && sed -i 's/\$releasever/7/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*.repo \
     && rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7 \
-    && yum clean all
+    && rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Storage \
+    && rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-Virtualization
+
 RUN yum-config-manager --enable ol7_optional_latest ol7_addons
 RUN yum install -y yum-plugin-priorities \
     && yum clean all
diff --git a/docker/base/ceph.yum.repo b/docker/base/ceph.yum.repo
deleted file mode 100644
index 91bb2ecf67..0000000000
--- a/docker/base/ceph.yum.repo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-[ceph-x86_64]
-name=Ceph x86_64 packages
-baseurl=http://download.ceph.com/rpm-hammer/el7/x86_64
-enabled=1
-priority=2
-gpgcheck=1
-type=rpm-md
-gpgkey=https://download.ceph.com/keys/release.asc
-timeout=90
-
-[ceph-noarch]
-name=Ceph noarch packages
-baseurl=http://download.ceph.com/rpm-hammer/el7/noarch
-enabled=1
-priority=2
-gpgcheck=1
-type=rpm-md
-gpgkey=https://download.ceph.com/keys/release.asc
-timeout=90
diff --git a/docker/base/versionlock.list b/docker/base/versionlock.list
index 4d480bc56b..9a4aa1bf42 100644
--- a/docker/base/versionlock.list
+++ b/docker/base/versionlock.list
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-1:ceph-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:ceph-common-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:ceph-debuginfo-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:ceph-devel-compat-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:ceph-libs-compat-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:ceph-radosgw-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:libcephfs1-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:librados2-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:librbd1-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:mesos-0.27.1
-1:python-cephfs-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:python-rados-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
-1:python-rbd-0.94.5-0.el7.centos.*
+1:ceph-0.94.5-1.el7.*
+1:ceph-common-0.94.5-1.el7.*
+1:ceph-debuginfo-0.94.5-0.el7.*
+1:ceph-devel-compat-0.94.5-1.el7.*
+1:ceph-libs-compat-0.94.5-1.el7.*
+1:ceph-radosgw-0.94.5-1.el7.*
+1:librados2-0.94.5-1.el7.*
+1:libcephfs1-0.94.5-1.el7.*
+1:librbd1-0.94.5-1.el7.*
+1:mesos-0.27.1*
+1:python-cephfs-0.94.5-1.el7.*
+1:python-rados-0.94.5-1.el7.*
+1:python-rbd-0.94.5-1.el7.*