diff --git a/roles/edpm_nova/molecule/default/prepare.yml b/roles/edpm_nova/molecule/default/prepare.yml
index 023ff6df3..cc3efe3e0 100644
--- a/roles/edpm_nova/molecule/default/prepare.yml
+++ b/roles/edpm_nova/molecule/default/prepare.yml
@@ -81,3 +81,11 @@
         owner: root
         group: root
         mode: 0755
+    - name: Create ssh_known_hosts file
+      become: true
+      ansible.builtin.file:
+        path: '/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts'
+        state: touch
+        owner: root
+        group: root
+        mode: 0655
diff --git a/roles/edpm_nova/molecule/default/verify.yml b/roles/edpm_nova/molecule/default/verify.yml
index 779c5dbea..6e91f7d9a 100644
--- a/roles/edpm_nova/molecule/default/verify.yml
+++ b/roles/edpm_nova/molecule/default/verify.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
         - "/var/lib/openstack/config/containers"
         - "/var/log/containers"
         - "/var/log/containers/stdouts"
+        - "/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts"
         # extrenal deps
         - "/var/lib/openstack/config/ceph"
          # nova directories
diff --git a/roles/edpm_nova/templates/nova_compute.json.j2 b/roles/edpm_nova/templates/nova_compute.json.j2
index a69124ca0..0287884af 100644
--- a/roles/edpm_nova/templates/nova_compute.json.j2
+++ b/roles/edpm_nova/templates/nova_compute.json.j2
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
         "/etc/multipath:/etc/multipath:z",
         "/etc/multipath.conf:/etc/multipath.conf:ro",
         "/etc/iscsi:/etc/iscsi:ro",
-        "/var/lib/openstack/config/ceph:/var/lib/kolla/config_files/ceph:ro"
+        "/var/lib/openstack/config/ceph:/var/lib/kolla/config_files/ceph:ro",
+        "/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts:/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts:ro"
     ]
 }