diff --git a/playbooks/tripleo-ci/run-v3.yaml b/playbooks/tripleo-ci/run-v3.yaml
index 5228e95f8..9e4176a78 100644
--- a/playbooks/tripleo-ci/run-v3.yaml
+++ b/playbooks/tripleo-ci/run-v3.yaml
@@ -44,6 +44,18 @@
         content: "{{ zuul_dump|to_nice_yaml }}"
         dest: "{{ workspace }}/logs//zuul-variables.yaml"
 
+    - name: Remove package exclusions from package manager
+      become: true
+      ini_file:
+        path: "{{ item }}"
+        section: main
+        option: exclude
+        state: absent
+      failed_when: false
+      with_items:
+        - /etc/yum.conf
+        - /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
+
 - hosts:
     - primary
     - centos-7
diff --git a/playbooks/tripleo-ci/templates/toci_gate_test.sh.j2 b/playbooks/tripleo-ci/templates/toci_gate_test.sh.j2
index ed6b0a068..19d86e319 100755
--- a/playbooks/tripleo-ci/templates/toci_gate_test.sh.j2
+++ b/playbooks/tripleo-ci/templates/toci_gate_test.sh.j2
@@ -43,13 +43,16 @@ cat $TRIPLEO_ROOT/tripleo-ci/scripts/fake_fail_subunit | gzip - > $WORKSPACE/log
 # unversioned commands available like python(2|3) or pip(2|3). We should only
 # call pip using module approach which ensures we use the right version.
 $(python_cmd) -m pip --version || \
-    (curl "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" -o "get-pip.py"; sudo $(python_cmd) get-pip.py)
+    (curl -s "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" -o "get-pip.py"; sudo $(python_cmd) get-pip.py)
 
 if [ "$(python_cmd)" == "python3" ]; then
-    sudo $(package_manager) install python3-requests python3-urllib3 python3-PyYAML shyaml
+    sudo $(package_manager) reinstall python3-setuptools
+    sudo $(package_manager) install python3-setuptools python3-requests python3-urllib3 python3-PyYAML shyaml
 else
-    sudo $(package_manager) install python2-requests python-requests python-urllib3 PyYAML
+    sudo $(package_manager) reinstall python2-setuptools
+    sudo $(package_manager) install python2-setuptools python2-requests python-requests python-urllib3 PyYAML
 fi
+
 # shyaml may not have a rpm on older distros
 which shyaml 2>/dev/null || \
     sudo $(python_cmd) -m pip install shyaml
@@ -176,6 +179,7 @@ if [ ! -e $WORKSPACE/instackenv.json -a "{{ environment_infra }}" = "ovb" ] ; th
     export GEARDSERVER=${TEBROKERIP-192.168.1.1}
     # NOTE(pabelanger): We need gear for testenv, but this really should be
     # handled by tox.
+    sudo yum install -y python-docutils
     sudo $(python_cmd) -m pip install gear
     # Kill the whole job if it doesn't get a testenv in 20 minutes as it likely will timout in zuul
     ( sleep 1800 ; [ ! -e /tmp/toci.started ] && sudo kill -9 $$ ) &