diff --git a/ansible/roles/test/tasks/base_sanity.yml b/ansible/roles/test/tasks/base_sanity.yml
index 2f13ec714be..6d9f186191c 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/test/tasks/base_sanity.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/test/tasks/base_sanity.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
      when:
        - ({{ ps_out.stdout_lines | length }} <= 0) or ({{ orch_out.stdout_lines | length }} <= 0)
-       - recover is defined and recover == "true"
+       - recover is defined and recover | bool
 
    - name: Get syslog error information
      shell: cat /var/log/syslog |tail -n 5000 |grep -i error
diff --git a/ansible/roles/test/tasks/interface.yml b/ansible/roles/test/tasks/interface.yml
index 26364a8e19f..4913ae95256 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/test/tasks/interface.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/test/tasks/interface.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
   when:
     - ansible_interface_link_down_ports | length > 0
-    - recover is defined and recover == "true"
+    - recover is defined and recover | bool
 
 - debug: msg="Found link down ports {{ansible_interface_link_down_ports}}"
   when: ansible_interface_link_down_ports | length > 0