diff --git a/roles/mysql/tasks/Ubuntu_18_mysql_server.yml b/roles/mysql/tasks/Ubuntu_18_mysql_server.yml
index fdaf9afaea316de38635e4e51dc02876e18f9766..f3e2d3d1ca7c2e7aa86a07b5dbbf54e3da2e7f17 100644
--- a/roles/mysql/tasks/Ubuntu_18_mysql_server.yml
+++ b/roles/mysql/tasks/Ubuntu_18_mysql_server.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
   apt: name="{{ server_packages }}" update_cache=yes state=present
   become: true
 
+- name: Comment out bind address so it doesn't bind to 127.0.0.1
+  replace:
+    path: /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf
+    regexp: '(.*bind.*)'
+    replace: '#\1'
+
 - name: make sure mysql conf directory exists
   file: dest=/etc/mysql/conf.d state=directory
   become: true