diff --git a/infrared_plugin/roles/tobiko-ir-deploy/tasks/main.yaml b/infrared_plugin/roles/tobiko-ir-deploy/tasks/main.yaml
index 28f26e85c..62281cdd8 100644
--- a/infrared_plugin/roles/tobiko-ir-deploy/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/infrared_plugin/roles/tobiko-ir-deploy/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -60,9 +60,11 @@
 - name: "show last change details"
   debug: var=get_git_log.stdout_lines
 
-#we need also the master here so we are on the latest branch of validations
-- name: "get validation-framework master checks"
-  git:
-    repo: https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-validations.git
-    dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/tripleo-validations"
-    version: master
+#we install validations-common here since it's
+#packaged by rhel-osp
+- name: install validations-common
+  ignore_errors: yes
+  become: true
+  package:
+    name: validations-common
+    state: present
diff --git a/tobiko/tripleo/validations.py b/tobiko/tripleo/validations.py
index fd7afc12f..4d5feb3ca 100644
--- a/tobiko/tripleo/validations.py
+++ b/tobiko/tripleo/validations.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 from oslo_log import log
 from validations_libs import validation_actions
-from validations_libs import constants as v_consts
 
 from tobiko.tripleo import overcloud
 from tobiko.openstack import topology
@@ -24,8 +23,6 @@ from tobiko.shell import sh
 
 LOG = log.getLogger(__name__)
 
-v_consts.DEFAULT_VALIDATIONS_BASEDIR = '/home/stack/tripleo-validations'
-
 
 def prepare_ansible_hosts_inventory():
     """create a hosts.yaml with ansible connections'
@@ -44,8 +41,7 @@ def run_post_deployment_validations():
     if overcloud.has_overcloud():
         prepare_ansible_hosts_inventory()
         failures = []
-        validates_object = validation_actions.ValidationActions(
-            validation_path='/home/stack/tripleo-validations/playbooks')
+        validates_object = validation_actions.ValidationActions()
         validations_result = validates_object.run_validations(
                                          group='post-deployment',
                                          quiet=False,