diff --git a/roles/download/templates/kubeadm-images.yaml.j2 b/roles/download/templates/kubeadm-images.yaml.j2
index 565533087..c2068d2fc 100644
--- a/roles/download/templates/kubeadm-images.yaml.j2
+++ b/roles/download/templates/kubeadm-images.yaml.j2
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ etcd:
 {% endif %}
 dns:
   type: CoreDNS
-  imageRepository: {{ coredns_image_repo | regex_replace('/coredns.*$','') }}
+  imageRepository: {{ coredns_image_repo | regex_replace('/coredns(?!/coredns).*$','') }}
   imageTag: {{ coredns_image_tag }}
diff --git a/roles/kubernetes/control-plane/templates/kubeadm-config.v1beta2.yaml.j2 b/roles/kubernetes/control-plane/templates/kubeadm-config.v1beta2.yaml.j2
index c329fcabe..001a399ea 100644
--- a/roles/kubernetes/control-plane/templates/kubeadm-config.v1beta2.yaml.j2
+++ b/roles/kubernetes/control-plane/templates/kubeadm-config.v1beta2.yaml.j2
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ etcd:
 {% endif %}
 dns:
   type: CoreDNS
-  imageRepository: {{ coredns_image_repo | regex_replace('/coredns.*$','') }}
+  imageRepository: {{ coredns_image_repo | regex_replace('/coredns(?!/coredns).*$','') }}
   imageTag: {{ coredns_image_tag }}
 networking:
   dnsDomain: {{ dns_domain }}