diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 286f116..294dd03 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ magnum_pip_packages:
   - MySQL-python
   - PyMySQL
   - magnum
+  - python-memcached
 
 # This variable is used by the repo_build process to determine
 # which host group to check for members of before building the