diff --git a/bootstrap-salt.sh b/bootstrap-salt.sh
index ec07b9c80..51983a05b 100755
--- a/bootstrap-salt.sh
+++ b/bootstrap-salt.sh
@@ -2369,7 +2369,7 @@ __overwriteconfig() {
     fi
 
     # Convert json string to a yaml string and write it to config file. Output is dumped into tempfile.
-    "$good_python" -c "import json; import yaml; jsn=json.loads('$json'); yml=yaml.safe_dump(jsn, line_break='\\n', default_flow_style=False); config_file=open('$target', 'w'); config_file.write(yml); config_file.close();" 2>"$tempfile"
+    "$good_python" -c "import json; import yaml; jsn=json.loads('$json'); yml=yaml.safe_dump(jsn, line_break='\\n', default_flow_style=False, sort_keys=False); config_file=open('$target', 'w'); config_file.write(yml); config_file.close();" 2>"$tempfile"
 
     # No python errors output to the tempfile
     if [ ! -s "$tempfile" ]; then