diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 1ec968e..cb2ac8e 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 rhel9cis_skip_for_travis: false
 system_is_container: false
+container_vars_file: is_container.yml
 # rhel9cis is left off the front of this var for consistency in testing pipeline
 # system_is_ec2 toggle will disable tasks that fail on Amazon EC2 instances. Set true to skip and false to run tasks
 system_is_ec2: false
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
index 6436d97..d487d0a 100644
--- a/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
       - name: Load variable for container
         include_vars:
-            file: is_container.yml
+            file: "{{ container_vars_file }}"
       
       - name: output if discovered is a container
         debug: