diff --git a/zuul/layout.yaml b/zuul/layout.yaml
index 4b7452ab9f..31478830e3 100644
--- a/zuul/layout.yaml
+++ b/zuul/layout.yaml
@@ -999,6 +999,11 @@ jobs:
   - name: gate-heat-dsvm-functional-orig-postgres
     voting: false
 
+  # NOTE(tonyb) (heat) functional testing was introduced in the liberty
+  # cycle so testing the kilo branch doesn't make sense.
+  - name: gate-heatclient-dsvm-functional
+    branch: ^(?!stable/kilo).*$
+
   - name: gate-heat-dsvm-functional-convg-mysql
     branch: ^(?!stable/(kilo|liberty)).*$