diff --git a/pip/keras.file b/pip/keras.file
index a8e76c157d6..3968d0f0dc6 100644
--- a/pip/keras.file
+++ b/pip/keras.file
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+## INITENV SET KERAS_BACKEND tensorflow
 %define PipDownloadSourceType none
 Requires: py3-PyYAML py3-six
 Requires: py3-h5py py3-keras-applications py3-keras-preprocessing
diff --git a/scram-tools.file/tools/tensorflow/tensorflow.xml b/scram-tools.file/tools/tensorflow/tensorflow.xml
index 5cdd52deef3..fb7e447acbe 100644
--- a/scram-tools.file/tools/tensorflow/tensorflow.xml
+++ b/scram-tools.file/tools/tensorflow/tensorflow.xml
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@
     <environment name="INCLUDE" default="$TENSORFLOW_BASE/include"/>
   </client>
   <runtime name="PATH" value="$TENSORFLOW_BASE/bin" type="path"/>
+  <runtime name="KERAS_BACKEND" value="tensorflow"/>
   <flags SYSTEM_INCLUDE="1"/>
 </tool>