diff --git a/roles/database_server/tasks/main.yml b/roles/database_server/tasks/main.yml
index 30dd4e2aaaec2eccf9756fbf4d179241f302ea95..b1af29cbd9b37bddc86fdeb204c7758075aa02c0 100644
--- a/roles/database_server/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/database_server/tasks/main.yml
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
     enabled: true
 
 - name: Set UTF-8 encoding as default for MariaDB
-  copy:
-    src: "utf8.cnf"
+  template:
+    src: "utf8.cnf.j2"
     dest: "/etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/90-utf8.cnf"
     owner: root
     group: root