diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 42a9080..0a9c64e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ oslo.serialization!=2.19.1,>=2.18.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.33.0 # Apache-2.0
 testtools>=2.4.0 # MIT
 testscenarios>=0.4 # Apache-2.0/BSD
-tempest>=17.1.0 # Apache-2.0
+tempest>=27.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 requests>=2.14.2 # Apache-2.0