diff --git a/playbooks/group_vars/poseidon_k8s_controllers b/playbooks/group_vars/poseidon_k8s_controllers
index 7a1bd811..fd4a44d8 100644
--- a/playbooks/group_vars/poseidon_k8s_controllers
+++ b/playbooks/group_vars/poseidon_k8s_controllers
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ k8s_cert_dir_path: /etc/kubernetes/pki
 k8s_root_cacert_path: "{{ k8s_cert_dir_path }}/ca.crt"
 ca_key: poseidon_k8s_ca.key
 ca_cert: poseidon_k8s_ca.crt
-k8s_control_plane_kubeadm_patches_dir_path: /run/ansible
+k8s_control_plane_kubeadm_patches_dir_path: /tmp/ansible
 k8s_control_plane_iptables_rules_path: /etc/iptables/rules.v4  # used by the deb package 'iptables-persistent'
diff --git a/playbooks/group_vars/poseidon_k8s_workers b/playbooks/group_vars/poseidon_k8s_workers
index ac32c7e1..50cacbf7 100644
--- a/playbooks/group_vars/poseidon_k8s_workers
+++ b/playbooks/group_vars/poseidon_k8s_workers
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 cri_socket_path: unix:///var/run/containerd/containerd.sock
-k8s_worker_node_kubeadm_patches_dir_path: /run/ansible
+k8s_worker_node_kubeadm_patches_dir_path: /tmp/ansible
 k8s_worker_node_iptables_rules_path: /etc/iptables/rules.v4
 k8s_worker_node_join_config_template: poseidon/k8s-worker.yml.j2
 k8s_worker_node_join_patch_templates:
diff --git a/roles/k8s_control_plane/defaults/main.yml b/roles/k8s_control_plane/defaults/main.yml
index f07cb2c2..b95023e1 100644
--- a/roles/k8s_control_plane/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/k8s_control_plane/defaults/main.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 # Dir that will contain patches to combine with InitConfiguration and
 # JoinConfiguration on individual nodes.
-k8s_control_plane_kubeadm_patches_dir_path: /run/ansible
+k8s_control_plane_kubeadm_patches_dir_path: /tmp/ansible
 
 # file that contains elements specific to 'kubeadm init' runtime information
 k8s_control_plane_init_config_template: ""
diff --git a/roles/k8s_worker_node/defaults/main.yml b/roles/k8s_worker_node/defaults/main.yml
index e003b3b1..546e8f04 100644
--- a/roles/k8s_worker_node/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/k8s_worker_node/defaults/main.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 # Dir that will contain patches to combine with InitConfiguration and
 # JoinConfiguration on individual nodes.
-k8s_worker_node_kubeadm_patches_dir_path: /run/ansible
+k8s_worker_node_kubeadm_patches_dir_path: /tmp/ansible
 
 # file that contains elements specific to 'kubeadm join' runtime information
 k8s_worker_node_join_config_template: ""