diff --git a/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/init.yml b/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/init.yml
index a1cb1d0..27fe8bc 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/init.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/metacluster/tasks/init.yml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
     dest: /opt/metacluster/container-images
     remote_src: no
   when:
-    - lookup('ansible.builtin.fileglob', 'opt/metacluster/container-images/*.tgz') is match('.*image-tarballs.tgz')
+    - lookup('ansible.builtin.fileglob', '/opt/metacluster/container-images/*.tgz') is match('.*image-tarballs.tgz')
 
 - name: Get all stored fully qualified container image names
   ansible.builtin.shell: