diff --git a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
index 6fd0b2ed2f..3dbcc2f97c 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pytest-django
 pytest-pythonpath
 pytest-mock==1.11.1
 pytest-timeout
-pytest-xdist
+pytest-xdist==1.34.0 # 2.0.0 broke zuul for some reason
 tox  # for awxkit
 logutils
 jupyter