diff --git a/infrastructure-playbooks/take-over-existing-cluster.yml b/infrastructure-playbooks/take-over-existing-cluster.yml
index 0da650986..64aae9666 100644
--- a/infrastructure-playbooks/take-over-existing-cluster.yml
+++ b/infrastructure-playbooks/take-over-existing-cluster.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 # NOTE (leseb):
-# The playbook aims to takeover a cluster that was not configured with 
+# The playbook aims to takeover a cluster that was not configured with
 # ceph-ansible.
 #
 # The procedure is as follows:
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@
 
 - hosts: mons
   become: True
-  vars_files:
-    - roles/ceph-defaults/defaults/main.yml
-    - group_vars/all.yml
   roles:
     - ceph-defaults
     - ceph-fetch-keys