diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a4d4da6f93e9709a44e11b74394cf12944d8f145..c4a4576bfebdf085a64d45d903260e47e64d61e7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ The OpenAppStack bootstrap script allows you to easily set up a new OpenAppStack
 Please refer to https://openappstack.net/documentation.html for further details,
 and to https://openappstack.net/tutorial.html for a step by step installation tutorial
 how to bootstrap your cluster.
+
diff --git a/ansible/bootstrap.yml b/ansible/bootstrap.yml
index a4841f6a4ae1826566d9f5b65d8d9391dbdc728c..e026478b5d40eb82bef51fb67c5c3fce746e41cc 100644
--- a/ansible/bootstrap.yml
+++ b/ansible/bootstrap.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
         msg: >
           "You must update Ansible to at least 2.6 to bootstrap your OAS cluster."
 
+    - name: Release name must start with lower case 
+      assert:
+        that: "'{{ release_name }}' is match('^[a-z]')"
+        msg: >
+          "Release name ({{ release_name }}) should start with lower case."
+
 - name: Prepare nodes
   hosts: cluster
   roles: