diff --git a/devstack-vm-gate-wrap.sh b/devstack-vm-gate-wrap.sh
index 1cb11c93..51591b65 100755
--- a/devstack-vm-gate-wrap.sh
+++ b/devstack-vm-gate-wrap.sh
@@ -476,8 +476,6 @@ virtualenv /tmp/ansible
 # Explicitly install pbr first as this will use pip rathat than
 # easy_install. Hope is this is generally more reliable.
 /tmp/ansible/bin/pip install pbr
-# Workaround for cffi-1.11.1 being released without wheels
-/tmp/ansible/bin/pip install cffi==1.11.0
 /tmp/ansible/bin/pip install ansible==$ANSIBLE_VERSION \
                      devstack-tools==$DSTOOLS_VERSION ara
 export ANSIBLE=/tmp/ansible/bin/ansible