diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 38d0827..a432162 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ ceph_pkg_source: ceph
 ceph_stable_release: reef
 ceph_apt_pinned_packages: [{package: "*", release: "ceph.com", priority: 1001}]
 
+ceph_repo_url_region: "download"  # see here for other mirros http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/install/mirrors/
+ceph_repo_url: https://{{ ceph_repo_url_region }}.ceph.com/{{ _ceph_repo_distro_suffix }}-{{ ceph_stable_release }}
+ceph_repos: "{{ _ceph_repos }}"
+
 # Ceph Authentication
 cephx: true
 
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/align_ceph_repo_vars-222f6af6a7d349a2.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/align_ceph_repo_vars-222f6af6a7d349a2.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..793dd0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/align_ceph_repo_vars-222f6af6a7d349a2.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+upgrade:
+  - |
+    The configuration of repositories for the ceph_client role through
+    the `ceph_yum_repo_url` and `ceph_repo_url` variable is changed.
+    These variables were replaced by unified `ceph_repo_url` variable.
+    With that `ceph_apt_repos` has bee replaced by `ceph_repos` variable
+    which should follow deb822_repository format for Debian/Ubuntu and
+    `yum_repository` for CentOS Stream/Rocky Linux.
+
+deprecations:
+  - |
+    In order to unify Ceph client installation approaches for EL and Debian
+    platforms following variables were deprecated and are silently ignored:
+
+      * ceph_yum_repo_url
+      * ceph_apt_repo_url
+      * ceph_apt_repos
diff --git a/tasks/ceph_preinstall_apt.yml b/tasks/ceph_preinstall_apt.yml
index 3878854..3df6c49 100644
--- a/tasks/ceph_preinstall_apt.yml
+++ b/tasks/ceph_preinstall_apt.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 - name: Validate repo config is deb822 format
   vars:
-    _repo_check: "{{ ceph_apt_repos.values() | selectattr('repo', 'defined') | map(attribute='repo') }}"
+    _repo_check: "{{ ceph_repos | selectattr('repo', 'defined') | map(attribute='repo') }}"
   ansible.builtin.assert:
     that: _repo_check | length == 0
     fail_msg: "The following repository definitions must be updated to deb822 format {{ _repo_check }}"
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 - name: Find legacy repository files
   find:
     paths: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
-    patterns: "{{ ceph_apt_repo_url | urlsplit('hostname') | replace('.', '_') }}_*.list"
+    patterns: "{{ ceph_repo_url | urlsplit('hostname') | replace('.', '_') }}_*.list"
   register: _legacy_apt_repos
 
 - name: Clean up legacy repository config not in deb822 format
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
     trusted: "{{ item.trusted | default(omit) }}"
     types: "{{ item.types | default(omit) }}"
     uris: "{{ item.uris | default(omit) }}"
-  loop: "{{ ceph_apt_repos.values() }}"
+  loop: "{{ ceph_repos }}"
   loop_control:
     label: "{{ loop_label | to_json }}"
   register: deb822_repos
diff --git a/tasks/ceph_preinstall_dnf.yml b/tasks/ceph_preinstall_dnf.yml
index 72c816e..ddd0dca 100644
--- a/tasks/ceph_preinstall_dnf.yml
+++ b/tasks/ceph_preinstall_dnf.yml
@@ -15,42 +15,23 @@
 
 - name: Download EPEL gpg keys
   get_url:
-    url: "{{ ceph_centos_epel_key }}"
-    dest: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg
+    url: "{{ item.url }}"
+    dest: "{{ item.key }}"
     mode: "0640"
+  with_items: "{{ ceph_gpg_keys | selectattr('url', 'defined') }}"
   register: _get_yum_keys
   until: _get_yum_keys is success
   retries: 5
   delay: 2
-
-- name: Install EPEL gpg keys
-  rpm_key:
-    key: "/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/{{ ceph_centos_epel_key.split('/')[-1] }}"
-    state: present
-
-- name: Install the EPEL repository
-  yum_repository:
-    name: ceph-client-deps
-    baseurl: "{{ ceph_centos_epel_mirror ~ '/' ~ ansible_facts['distribution_major_version'] ~ '/Everything/' ~ ansible_facts['architecture'] }}"
-    description: "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux {{ ansible_facts['distribution_major_version'] }} - $basearch"
-    gpgcheck: yes
-    gpgkey: "file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/{{ ceph_centos_epel_key.split('/')[-1] }}"
-    enabled: yes
-    state: present
-    includepkgs: 'lttng-ust*, userspace-rcu, libbabeltrace, leveldb, liboath, fmt, thrift'
   when:
-    - ansible_facts['pkg_mgr'] == 'dnf'
-  register: install_epel_repo
-  until: install_epel_repo  is success
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 2
+    - ceph_pkg_source == 'ceph'
 
 - name: Copy Ceph gpg keyfile to the key location
   copy:
-    src: "gpg/{{ item.key | basename }}"
+    src: "{{ item.src }}"
     dest: "{{ item.key }}"
-    mode: '0644'
-  with_items: "{{ ceph_gpg_keys }}"
+    mode: "0640"
+  with_items: "{{ ceph_gpg_keys | selectattr('src', 'defined') }}"
   when:
     - ceph_pkg_source == 'ceph'
 
@@ -69,24 +50,22 @@
   retries: 5
   delay: 2
 
-- name: Add ceph repo
+- name: Install required repositories
   yum_repository:
-    name: ceph
-    description: "Ceph packages for $basearch"
-    file: ceph
-    baseurl: "{{ ceph_yum_repo_url }}/$basearch"
-    gpgcheck: yes
-    enabled: yes
-    priority: 50
-    state: present
-
-- name: Add ceph noarch repo
-  yum_repository:
-    name: ceph-noarch
-    description: "Ceph noarch packages"
-    file: ceph
-    baseurl: "{{ ceph_yum_repo_url }}/noarch"
-    gpgcheck: yes
-    enabled: yes
-    priority: 50
-    state: present
+    baseurl: "{{ item.baseurl }}"
+    description: "{{ item.description | default(omit) }}"
+    enabled: "{{ item.enabled | default(True) }}"
+    file: "{{ item.file | default(omit) }}"
+    includepkgs: "{{ item.includepkgs | default(omit) }}"
+    gpgcheck: "{{ item.gpgcheck | default(omit) }}"
+    gpgkey: "{{ item.gpgkey | default(omit) }}"
+    name: "{{ item.name }}"
+    priority: "{{ item.priority | default(omit) }}"
+    state: "{{ item.enabled | default('present') }}"
+  with_items: "{{ ceph_repos }}"
+  when:
+    - ansible_facts['pkg_mgr'] == 'dnf'
+  register: install_repo
+  until: install_repo  is success
+  retries: 5
+  delay: 2
diff --git a/vars/debian.yml b/vars/debian.yml
index 82097f6..1efb354 100644
--- a/vars/debian.yml
+++ b/vars/debian.yml
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
 ## APT Cache Options
 cache_timeout: 600
 
-# Ceph.com repository variables
-ceph_apt_repo_url_region: "download"  # or "eu" for Netherlands based mirror
-ceph_apt_repo_url: "http://{{ ceph_apt_repo_url_region }}.ceph.com/debian-{{ ceph_stable_release }}"
 
 libvirt_packages:
   - libvirt-daemon-system
@@ -32,12 +29,11 @@ python_ceph_packages:
   - python3-rados
   - python3-rbd
 
-# Apt repositories
-ceph_apt_repos:
-  ceph:
-    name: "Ceph"
+_ceph_repo_distro_suffix: debian
+_ceph_repos:
+  - name: "ceph"
     suites: "{{ ansible_facts['distribution_release'] }}"
-    uris: "{{ ceph_apt_repo_url }}"
+    uris: "{{ ceph_repo_url }}"
     signed_by: "{{ lookup('file', 'gpg/460f3994') }}"
     components: main
     architectures: "{{ ansible_facts['architecture'] }}"
diff --git a/vars/redhat.yml b/vars/redhat.yml
index e3ab1b8..7fdc8c8 100644
--- a/vars/redhat.yml
+++ b/vars/redhat.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 ceph_gpg_keys:
   # download.ceph.com/keys/release.asc
   - key: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/ceph_com_keys_release
+    src: gpg/ceph_com_keys_release
+    state: "{{ (ceph_pkg_source == 'ceph') | ternary('present', 'absent') }}"
+  - key: "/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/{{ ceph_centos_epel_key | basename }}"
+    url: "{{ ceph_centos_epel_key }}"
+    state: "{{ (ceph_pkg_source == 'ceph') | ternary('present', 'absent') }}"
 
 libvirt_packages:
   - libvirt-daemon-kvm
@@ -29,7 +34,31 @@ python_ceph_packages:
   - python3-rados
   - python3-rbd
 
-ceph_repo_url_region: "download" # see here for other mirros http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/install/mirrors/
-ceph_yum_repo_url: "https://{{ ceph_repo_url_region }}.ceph.com/rpm-{{ ceph_stable_release }}/el{{ ansible_facts['distribution_major_version'] }}"
+_ceph_repo_distro_suffix: rpm
+_ceph_repos:
+  - name: ceph-client-deps
+    baseurl: "{{ ceph_centos_epel_mirror ~ '/' ~ ansible_facts['distribution_major_version'] ~ '/Everything/' ~ ansible_facts['architecture'] }}"
+    description: "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux {{ ansible_facts['distribution_major_version'] }} - $basearch"
+    gpgcheck: yes
+    gpgkey: "file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/{{ ceph_centos_epel_key.split('/')[-1] }}"
+    enabled: yes
+    state: "{{ (ceph_pkg_source == 'ceph') | ternary('present', 'absent') }}"
+    includepkgs: 'lttng-ust*, userspace-rcu, libbabeltrace, leveldb, liboath, fmt, thrift'
+  - name: ceph
+    description: "Ceph packages for $basearch"
+    file: ceph
+    baseurl: "{{ ceph_yum_repo_url }}/el$releasever/$basearch"
+    gpgcheck: yes
+    enabled: yes
+    priority: 50
+    state: "{{ (ceph_pkg_source == 'ceph') | ternary('present', 'absent') }}"
+  - name: ceph-noarch
+    description: "Ceph noarch packages"
+    file: ceph
+    baseurl: "{{ ceph_yum_repo_url }}/el$releasever/noarch"
+    gpgcheck: yes
+    enabled: yes
+    priority: 50
+    state: "{{ (ceph_pkg_source == 'ceph') | ternary('present', 'absent') }}"
 
 # TODO mgariepy: add CentOS SIG ceph repo.