diff --git a/infrastructure-playbooks/recover-osds-after-ssd-journal-failure.yml b/infrastructure-playbooks/recover-osds-after-ssd-journal-failure.yml
index b596d87f0..4c21eeec0 100644
--- a/infrastructure-playbooks/recover-osds-after-ssd-journal-failure.yml
+++ b/infrastructure-playbooks/recover-osds-after-ssd-journal-failure.yml
@@ -55,14 +55,7 @@
    journal_typecode: 45b0969e-9b03-4f30-b4c6-b4b80ceff106
    dev_ssds: []
 
-  tasks:
-  - name: load a variable file for dev_ssds
-    include_vars: "{{ item }}"
-    with_first_found:
-      - files:
-          - "host_vars/{{ ansible_hostname }}.yml"
-        skip: true
-        
+  tasks: 
   - name: get osd(s) if directory stat
     stat:
       path: "/var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-{{ item.1.osd_id }}/journal_uuid"