diff --git a/roles/bootstrap/tasks/main.yml b/roles/bootstrap/tasks/main.yml
index 6e32bbd6d0016ec5ec80fe20ea0c00b910f16799..d225e9f7ccd3772d16e1e59367478b1067b8d958 100644
--- a/roles/bootstrap/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/bootstrap/tasks/main.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   user: name=ansible system=yes group=ansible shell=/bin/bash
 
 - name: Set-up authorized key for the Ansible user
-  authorized_key: user=ansible key="{{ lookup('file', ansible_key) }}"
+  authorized_key: user=ansible key="{{ ansible_key }}"
 
 - name: Set-up password-less sudo for the ansible user
   copy: src=ansible_sudo dest=/etc/sudoers.d/ansible mode=640 owner=root group=root
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