diff --git a/playbooks/infra-puppet-beaker-rspec/run.yaml b/playbooks/infra-puppet-beaker-rspec/run.yaml
index e92576b3..112805cd 100644
--- a/playbooks/infra-puppet-beaker-rspec/run.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/infra-puppet-beaker-rspec/run.yaml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     - name: Execute acceptance tests
       shell:
         cmd: |
-          gem install bundler --no-rdoc --no-ri --verbose
+          gem install bundler --no-ri --no-rdoc --verbose --version '<2.0.0'
           $GEM_HOME/bin/bundle install --retry 3
           export BEAKER_set={{ nodeset }}
           export BEAKER_debug=yes
diff --git a/playbooks/legacy/system-config-puppet-syntax-3/run.yaml b/playbooks/legacy/system-config-puppet-syntax-3/run.yaml
index 3ec2b5ba..ae9b89ac 100644
--- a/playbooks/legacy/system-config-puppet-syntax-3/run.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/legacy/system-config-puppet-syntax-3/run.yaml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
           export PUPPET_GEM_VERSION='~> 3'
           mkdir .bundled_gems
           export GEM_HOME=`pwd`/.bundled_gems
-          gem install bundler --no-rdoc --no-ri --verbose
+          gem install bundler --no-rdoc --no-ri --verbose --version '<2.0.0'
           $GEM_HOME/bin/bundle install --retry 3
           # FUTURE_PARSER=yes is only supported by Puppet 3.x
           if [ "3" -lt "4" ]; then