diff --git a/playbooks/ceph/glance-setup.yaml b/playbooks/ceph/glance-setup.yaml
index 5792c7223791..93248251d1fe 100644
--- a/playbooks/ceph/glance-setup.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/ceph/glance-setup.yaml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
           # Upload it to glance as the sole image available so tempest
           # config will find it. Wait ten seconds after doing this
           # before the restart below.
-          openstack image create --container-format bare --disk-format raw --public "cirros-raw" < "$rawimage"
+          openstack image create --container-format bare --disk-format raw --public "cirros-raw" --file $(readlink -f "$rawimage")
           sleep 10
           openstack image list
           openstack image show cirros-raw