diff --git a/ansible/roles/cinder/tasks/external_ceph.yml b/ansible/roles/cinder/tasks/external_ceph.yml
index 4d64963863..b0ff3b22ce 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/cinder/tasks/external_ceph.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/cinder/tasks/external_ceph.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
     - inventory_hostname in groups[item.value.group]
     - item.key in services_need_config
   with_dict: "{{ cinder_services }}"
+  notify:
+    - Restart cinder-volume container
+    - Restart cinder-backup container
 
 - name: Copy over Ceph keyring files for cinder-volume
   copy:
@@ -39,6 +42,8 @@
     - external_ceph_cephx_enabled | bool
     - inventory_hostname in groups['cinder-volume']
     - cinder_services['cinder-volume'].enabled | bool
+  notify:
+    - Restart cinder-volume container
 
 - name: Copy over Ceph keyring files for cinder-backup
   copy:
@@ -50,3 +55,5 @@
     - external_ceph_cephx_enabled | bool
     - inventory_hostname in groups['cinder-backup']
     - cinder_services['cinder-backup'].enabled | bool
+  notify:
+    - Restart cinder-backup container
diff --git a/ansible/roles/glance/tasks/external_ceph.yml b/ansible/roles/glance/tasks/external_ceph.yml
index 0eeb588296..536e08ce02 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/glance/tasks/external_ceph.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/glance/tasks/external_ceph.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
     mode: "0660"
   with_fileglob:
     - "{{ node_custom_config }}/glance/ceph*"
+  notify:
+    - Restart glance-api container
 
 - name: Ensuring config directory has correct owner and permission
   become: true
diff --git a/ansible/roles/gnocchi/tasks/external_ceph.yml b/ansible/roles/gnocchi/tasks/external_ceph.yml
index 1d8ee098db..3ff59696d7 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/gnocchi/tasks/external_ceph.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/gnocchi/tasks/external_ceph.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
     - "gnocchi-api"
     - "gnocchi-metricd"
     - "gnocchi-statsd"
+  notify:
+    - Restart gnocchi-api container
+    - Restart gnocchi-metricd container
+    - Restart gnocchi-statsd container
 
 - name: Copy over ceph gnocchi keyring
   copy:
@@ -28,3 +32,7 @@
     - "gnocchi-api"
     - "gnocchi-metricd"
     - "gnocchi-statsd"
+  notify:
+    - Restart gnocchi-api container
+    - Restart gnocchi-metricd container
+    - Restart gnocchi-statsd container
diff --git a/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/external_ceph.yml b/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/external_ceph.yml
index 7071791d79..700dbcbd0f 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/external_ceph.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/nova/tasks/external_ceph.yml
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
   when:
     - inventory_hostname in groups['compute']
     - external_ceph_cephx_enabled | bool
+  notify:
+    - Restart nova-compute container
+    - Restart nova-libvirt container
 
 - name: Copy over ceph.conf
   copy:
@@ -47,6 +50,9 @@
     - nova-compute
     - nova-libvirt
   when: inventory_hostname in groups['compute']
+  notify:
+    - Restart nova-compute container
+    - Restart nova-libvirt container
 
 - name: Pushing nova secret xml for libvirt
   template:
@@ -63,6 +69,8 @@
     - uuid: "{{ cinder_rbd_secret_uuid }}"
       name: "client.cinder secret"
       enabled: "{{ cinder_backend_ceph }}"
+  notify:
+    - Restart nova-libvirt container
 
 - name: Extract nova key from file
   local_action: shell cat "{{ nova_cephx_keyring_file.stat.path }}" | grep -E 'key\s*=' | awk '{ print $3 }'
@@ -94,6 +102,8 @@
     - uuid: "{{ cinder_rbd_secret_uuid }}"
       content: "{{ cinder_cephx_raw_key.stdout }}"
       enabled: "{{ cinder_backend_ceph }}"
+  notify:
+    - Restart nova-libvirt container
 
 - name: Ensuring config directory has correct owner and permission
   become: true