diff --git a/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/v2/test_tls_barbican.py b/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/v2/test_tls_barbican.py
index 2e1464c..3c92181 100644
--- a/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/v2/test_tls_barbican.py
+++ b/octavia_tempest_plugin/tests/barbican_scenario/v2/test_tls_barbican.py
@@ -1256,7 +1256,18 @@
                                 const.ACTIVE,
                                 CONF.load_balancer.build_interval,
                                 CONF.load_balancer.build_timeout)
-
+        # TODO(johnsom) - Remove this once eventlet is removed from OpenStack
+        # NOTE(pas-ha): depending on what other tempest plugins are installed
+        # the eventlet might've been imported by that time, and, since
+        # dnspython 2.2.0, importing eventlet or any part of it effectively
+        # instantiates a dummy httpx.Client instance, thus pinning the ssl
+        # implementation in httpx to the eventlet's one.
+        # This leads to error in the Client() call below, as the ssl lib in
+        # this module is different from ssl lib in httpx._config,
+        # which fails isinstance check for ssl.SSLContext.
+        # Use the ssl module that is actually used by httpx to instantiate
+        # the SSL context to be used with httpx.
+        ssl = httpx._config.ssl
         context = ssl.create_default_context(cadata=self.ca_cert.public_bytes(
             serialization.Encoding.PEM).decode('utf-8'))
         context.check_hostname = False
diff --git a/zuul.d/jobs.yaml b/zuul.d/jobs.yaml
index d43876b..cb40790 100644
--- a/zuul.d/jobs.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/jobs.yaml
@@ -29,16 +29,6 @@
           - controller
 
 - nodeset:
-    name: octavia-single-node-centos-7
-    nodes:
-      - name: controller
-        label: nested-virt-centos-7
-    groups:
-      - name: tempest
-        nodes:
-          - controller
-
-- nodeset:
     name: octavia-single-node-centos-8
     nodes:
       - name: controller
@@ -762,16 +752,6 @@
                 loadbalancer_topology: ACTIVE_STANDBY
 
 - job:
-    name: octavia-v2-dsvm-py2-scenario-centos-7
-    parent: octavia-v2-dsvm-py2-scenario
-    nodeset: octavia-single-node-centos-7
-    vars:
-      devstack_localrc:
-        OCTAVIA_AMP_BASE_OS: centos
-        OCTAVIA_AMP_DISTRIBUTION_RELEASE_ID: 7
-        OCTAVIA_AMP_IMAGE_SIZE: 3
-
-- job:
     name: octavia-v2-dsvm-scenario-centos-8
     parent: octavia-v2-dsvm-scenario
     nodeset: octavia-single-node-centos-8
@@ -997,11 +977,6 @@
     parent: octavia-v2-dsvm-scenario
 
 - job:
-    name: octavia-v2-dsvm-scenario-centos-7
-    parent: octavia-v2-dsvm-py2-scenario-centos-7
-    nodeset: octavia-single-node-centos-7
-
-- job:
     name: octavia-v2-act-stdby-iptables-dsvm-scenario
     parent: octavia-dsvm-live-base
     pre-run: playbooks/act_stby_iptables/pre.yaml
@@ -1039,22 +1014,6 @@
         override-checkout: 2.30.0
 
 - job:
-    name: octavia-v2-act-stdby-iptables-dsvm-py2-scenario-centos-7
-    parent: octavia-v2-act-stdby-iptables-dsvm-py2-scenario
-    nodeset: octavia-single-node-centos-7
-    vars:
-      devstack_localrc:
-        USE_PYTHON3: False
-        OCTAVIA_AMP_BASE_OS: centos
-        OCTAVIA_AMP_DISTRIBUTION_RELEASE_ID: 7
-        OCTAVIA_AMP_IMAGE_SIZE: 3
-      devstack_local_conf:
-        test-config:
-          "$TEMPEST_CONFIG":
-            load_balancer:
-              amphora_ssh_user: centos
-
-- job:
     name: octavia-v2-act-stdby-dsvm-scenario-base
     parent: octavia-dsvm-live-base
     vars: