diff --git a/deployment/nova/nova-libvirt-container-puppet.yaml b/deployment/nova/nova-libvirt-container-puppet.yaml
index 837ef8e969..d5e7d2be68 100644
--- a/deployment/nova/nova-libvirt-container-puppet.yaml
+++ b/deployment/nova/nova-libvirt-container-puppet.yaml
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ parameters:
       Whether to enable or disable TLS client certificate verification. Enabling this
       option will reject any client who does not have a certificate signed by the CA
       in /etc/pki/qemu/ca-cert.pem
-    default: true
+    default: false
     type: boolean
   LibvirtLogFilters:
     description: Defines a filter to select a different logging level