diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient b/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
index a8b5e39b..7f6aea95 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/common/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/apiclient
@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ class HTTPSClient(client.HTTPConnection, object):
     def connect(self):
         addrinf = socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port)[0]
         psock = socket.socket(addrinf[0])
+        psock.settimeout(15)
         psock.connect(addrinf[4])
         ctx = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
         ctx.load_verify_locations('/etc/confluent/ca.pem')