diff --git a/roles/batcave/tasks/main.yml b/roles/batcave/tasks/main.yml
index c6d23be8f8..2762cb6735 100644
--- a/roles/batcave/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/batcave/tasks/main.yml
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
   # - python39-jmespath         # for the copr playbooks
   - rhel-system-roles         # for networking
   - python3-requests-kerberos # for authentication via kinit inside ansible
+  - python3-sqlalchemy        # needed for rhel2json
   tags:
   - batcave
   - config