diff --git a/ansible/gold-master.yml b/ansible/gold-master.yml
index 90f4aacffdb5073dbfe43be2e5c2f6794e40b35b..65f03a50aa9d476d1a711b843ced2d8c294dabee 100644
--- a/ansible/gold-master.yml
+++ b/ansible/gold-master.yml
@@ -4,9 +4,31 @@
 
 - hosts: localhost
   tasks:
+    - name: create br-wan profile
+      lxd_container:
+        name: br-wan
+        type: profile
+        state: present
+        description: Connect eth0 to br-wan
+        devices:
+          eth0:
+            name: eth0
+            nictype: bridged
+            parent: br-wan
+            type: nic
+
     # NOTE: on first run this fetches the whole image (~650MB) over the Internet
     - name: create gold-master container
-      lxd_container: name=gold-master image=ubuntu:16.04 state=started
+      lxd_container:
+        name: gold-master
+        state: started
+        source:
+          type: image
+          mode: pull
+          server: https://images.linuxcontainers.org
+          protocol: lxd
+          alias: ubuntu/xenial/amd64
+        profiles: ["br-wan"]
 
 # Ansible cannot run in a container unless python2 is present.
 # It can't even gather "facts" about it. So we must force
@@ -33,8 +55,7 @@
         - zip
         - unzip
 
-# Now shut it down so we can clone it
-
 - hosts: localhost
   tasks:
-    - lxd_container: name=gold-master state=stopped
+    - name: stop container so it can be cloned
+      lxd_container: name=gold-master state=stopped