diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index ec7cd57af9..9606533d2f 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 import openstackdocstheme
 import os
 import pbr.version
-
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
@@ -297,3 +297,7 @@ pdf_documents = [
     (master_doc, target_name,
      title, author)
 ]
+
+pipe = Popen('git describe --abbrev=0 --tags', stdout=PIPE, shell=True)
+version = pipe.stdout.read()
+rst_epilog = '.. |my_conf_val| replace:: %s' % version
diff --git a/doc/source/install-guide-revised-draft/deploymenthost.rst b/doc/source/install-guide-revised-draft/deploymenthost.rst
index 00e30513ec..8f47285c0b 100644
--- a/doc/source/install-guide-revised-draft/deploymenthost.rst
+++ b/doc/source/install-guide-revised-draft/deploymenthost.rst
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Install the source and dependencies for the deployment host.
 
        # git clone -b TAG https://github.com/openstack/openstack-ansible.git /opt/openstack-ansible
 
-   Replace ``TAG`` with the current stable release tag.
+   Replace ``TAG`` with the current stable release tag : |my_conf_val|
 
 #. Change to the ``/opt/openstack-ansible`` directory, and run the
    Ansible bootstrap script: