diff --git a/roles/deploy-env/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/deploy-env/tasks/main.yaml
index ede3950a6a..0f4e13dcf4 100644
--- a/roles/deploy-env/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/roles/deploy-env/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
   template:
     src: files/etc_default_kubelet.j2
     dest: /etc/default/kubelet
-  when: inventory_hostname in (groups['k8s_nodes'] | default([]))
+  when: inventory_hostname in (groups['k8s_cluster'] | default([]))
 
 - name: Join workload nodes to cluster
   command: "{{ (groups['k8s_control_plane'] | map('extract', hostvars, ['join_command', 'stdout_lines', 0]))[0] }}"