diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3713e08ba0..b640c6a6b7 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ python-cinderclient>=3.3.0  # Apache-2.0
 PyYAML>=5.1 # MIT
 requests!=2.9.0,>=2.8.1 # Apache-2.0
 stevedore>=1.20.0 # Apache-2.0
-tenacity>=4.12.0  # Apache-2.0
+tenacity>=4.12.0,<7.0.0  # Apache-2.0
 tooz[zake]>=1.47.0 # Apache-2.0
 os-xenapi>=0.3.3 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.cache>=1.26.0 # Apache-2.0