diff --git a/roles/deploy_lxc_on_proxmox/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/deploy_lxc_on_proxmox/tasks/main.yaml
index f230a41..6a74105 100644
--- a/roles/deploy_lxc_on_proxmox/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/roles/deploy_lxc_on_proxmox/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
 
     hostname: "{{ lxc_hostname }}"
     state: started
+  retries: 3
+  delay: 15
 
 - name: Sleep for a minute to ensure that ssh is ready
   become: false