diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 7f47c9b7ed4f043c5601b47b10eadb78ce1975d0..cbd42848d9a75f04ef1a20740d85a9a50f761ee7 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ tf-apply:
     - export BUILD_DATE=$(TZ=America/Chicago date +%Y%m%d)
     - export TF_VAR_internal_network="tf-clusternet-$BUILD_DATE"
     - export TF_VAR_external_network="tf-dmznet-$BUILD_DATE"
+    - export TF_VAR_keypair_name="os-gen-keypair-$BUILD_DATE"
     - XDMOD_IMAGES=($(openstack image list --sort-column Name --sort-descending -f value -c Name -c ID | grep -P ' xdmod-\d{14}$' | awk '{print $2}'))
     - export TF_VAR_image_ohpc="${XDMOD_IMAGES[1]}"
     - echo $TF_VAR_image_ohpc