diff --git a/roles/docker/tasks/systemd.yml b/roles/docker/tasks/systemd.yml
index 877de1299..78cec33cc 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