diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 257af400..5d59190d 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -210,16 +210,13 @@ lxc_cache_download_template_options: >-
 # Locales to populate in the LXC base cache
 lxc_cache_locales: "{{ _lxc_cache_locales | default(['en_US.UTF-8']) }}"
 
-# Centos EPEL repository options
+# EL EPEL repository options
 lxc_centos_epel_mirror: "{{ centos_epel_mirror | default('http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel') }}"
 lxc_centos_epel_key: >-
   {{ centos_epel_key | default('http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-' ~ ansible_facts['distribution_major_version']) }}
+lxc_hosts_epel_packages: "{{ _lxc_hosts_epel_packages | default([]) }}"
 
-# LXC must be installed from a COPR repository on CentOS since the version
-# provided in EPEL is much too old (1.x).
-lxc_centos_package_baseurl: "{{ _lxc_centos_package_baseurl }}"
-lxc_centos_package_key: "{{ _lxc_centos_package_key }}"
-
+# DEB repository options
 lxc_ubuntu_mirror: "{{ (ansible_facts['architecture'] == 'x86_64') | ternary('http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu', 'http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports') }}"
 lxc_apt_mirror: "{{ (ansible_facts['distribution'] == 'Ubuntu') | ternary(lxc_ubuntu_mirror, 'http://deb.debian.org/debian') }}"
 
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/centos_copr-dca96bcade8cfb75.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/centos_copr-dca96bcade8cfb75.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fa5eca16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/centos_copr-dca96bcade8cfb75.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+upgrade:
+  - |
+    EL does not need to carry thm COPR repo to install LXC as LXC
+    is now provided by EPEL.
+    We remove repository during upgrade and clean dnf metadata.
diff --git a/tasks/lxc_install_dnf.yml b/tasks/lxc_install_dnf.yml
index 0b0654f8..6002b91b 100644
--- a/tasks/lxc_install_dnf.yml
+++ b/tasks/lxc_install_dnf.yml
@@ -18,25 +18,17 @@
     name: createrepo
     state: present
 
-- name: Deploy upstream COPR yum repo for lxc 3
+- name: Drop COPR yum repo for lxc
   ansible.builtin.yum_repository:
     name: thm-lxc3.0
-    description: "Copr repo for lxc3.0 owned by thm"
-    baseurl: "{{ lxc_centos_package_baseurl }}"
-    enabled: true
-    gpgcheck: true
-    gpgkey: "{{ lxc_centos_package_key }}"
-    repo_gpgcheck: false
-    state: present
+    state: absent
+  register: repo_removed
 
-- name: Add GPG key for COPR LXC repo
-  ansible.builtin.rpm_key:
-    key: "{{ lxc_centos_package_key }}"
-    state: present
-  register: add_keys
-  until: add_keys is success
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 2
+- name: Clean yum metadata  # noqa: no-handler
+  ansible.builtin.command: yum clean metadata
+  changed_when: false
+  when:
+    - repo_removed is changed
 
 - name: Download EPEL gpg keys
   ansible.builtin.get_url:
@@ -53,7 +45,7 @@
     key: "/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/{{ lxc_centos_epel_key.split('/')[-1] }}"
     state: present
 
-- name: Install the EPEL repository - Centos-8
+- name: Install the EPEL repository
   ansible.builtin.yum_repository:
     name: epel-lxc_hosts
     baseurl: "{{ lxc_centos_epel_mirror ~ '/' ~ ansible_facts['distribution_major_version'] ~ '/Everything/' ~ ansible_facts['architecture'] }}"
@@ -62,11 +54,13 @@
     gpgkey: "file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/{{ lxc_centos_epel_key.split('/')[-1] }}"
     enabled: true
     state: present
-    includepkgs: "systemd-networkd"
+    includepkgs: "{{ lxc_hosts_epel_packages | join(' ') }}"
   register: install_epel_repo
   until: install_epel_repo is success
   retries: 5
   delay: 2
+  when:
+    - lxc_hosts_epel_packages | length > 0
 
 - name: Install distro packages
   ansible.builtin.package:
diff --git a/vars/redhat-host.yml b/vars/redhat-host.yml
index f98bc979..59dbbc33 100644
--- a/vars/redhat-host.yml
+++ b/vars/redhat-host.yml
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
 system_config_dir: "/etc/sysconfig"
 systemd_utils_prefix: "/lib/systemd"
 
-_lxc_centos_package_baseurl: "https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/neil/lxc4.0/centos-stream-9-$basearch/"
-_lxc_centos_package_key: "https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/neil/lxc4.0/pubkey.gpg"
+_lxc_hosts_epel_packages:
+  - lxc*
+  - python3-lxc
 
 # Required rpm packages.
 _lxc_hosts_distro_packages:
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ _lxc_hosts_distro_packages:
   - lxc
   - lxc-devel
   - lxc-libs
-  - lxc-templates-extra # requires lxc-templates
+  - lxc-templates
   - policycoreutils-python-utils
   - procps
   - python3-lxc
diff --git a/vars/redhat.yml b/vars/redhat.yml
index b3893fff..347ead21 100644
--- a/vars/redhat.yml
+++ b/vars/redhat.yml
@@ -48,9 +48,4 @@ _lxc_cache_distro_packages:
   - python3-libs
   - setup
   - sudo
-  - systemd
-  - systemd-resolved
-  - systemd-networkd
-  - systemd-sysv
-  - systemd-udev
   - tzdata