diff --git a/plugins/connection/kubectl.py b/plugins/connection/kubectl.py
index a8fcbf5c6e..980b54a343 100644
--- a/plugins/connection/kubectl.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/kubectl.py
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ def put_file(self, in_path, out_path):
                 [
                     self._play_context.executable,
                     "-c",
-                    "dd of=%s bs=%s%s" % (out_path, BUFSIZE, count),
+                    "dd of=%s bs=%s%s && sleep 0" % (out_path, BUFSIZE, count),
                 ]
             )
             args = [to_bytes(i, errors="surrogate_or_strict") for i in args]