diff --git a/seslib/templates/salt/ceph-salt/deployment_day_1.sh.j2 b/seslib/templates/salt/ceph-salt/deployment_day_1.sh.j2
index b0bdf4f0..80b540e8 100644
--- a/seslib/templates/salt/ceph-salt/deployment_day_1.sh.j2
+++ b/seslib/templates/salt/ceph-salt/deployment_day_1.sh.j2
@@ -187,3 +187,6 @@ set -x
 
 ceph status
 echo "\"ceph status\" exit code: $?"
+
+echo "Everything is actually fine, but we're injecting a failure here for test purposes"
+false