diff --git a/test-playbooks/base-roles/configure-mirrors.yaml b/test-playbooks/base-roles/configure-mirrors.yaml
index cd26a9562..a53e7bef0 100644
--- a/test-playbooks/base-roles/configure-mirrors.yaml
+++ b/test-playbooks/base-roles/configure-mirrors.yaml
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
           command: 'apt-get update'
           register: _apt_get_output
           become: yes
+          tags:
+            - skip_ansible_lint
 
         - name: Check for warnings in output
           fail:
diff --git a/test-playbooks/python/upload-pypi.yaml b/test-playbooks/python/upload-pypi.yaml
index 50f627aa2..ee912007b 100644
--- a/test-playbooks/python/upload-pypi.yaml
+++ b/test-playbooks/python/upload-pypi.yaml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
     # We tag this with the unix timestamp so that the upload always
     # has an increasing version number.
-    - name: Import sandbox project
+    - name: Import sandbox project  # noqa command-instead-of-module
       shell: |
         git clone https://opendev.org/opendev/sandbox
         pushd sandbox
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
         python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
       args:
         executable: '/bin/bash'
+      tags:
+        - skip_ansible_lint
 
     # This value is restricted to uploading the sandbox package to
     # test.pypi.org; it is not kept in plain text to avoid things that