diff --git a/roles/docker/tasks/systemd.yml b/roles/docker/tasks/systemd.yml
index 877de12997ae9f64abc3c284ba098db8dfadffe0..78cec33ccc7413e579125cc71d2eba41c50f2665 100644
--- a/roles/docker/tasks/systemd.yml
+++ b/roles/docker/tasks/systemd.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   when: http_proxy is defined or https_proxy is defined
 
 - name: get systemd version
-  command: systemctl --version | head -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 2
+  shell: systemctl --version | head -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 2
   register: systemd_version
   when: not is_atomic
   changed_when: false