diff --git a/roles/tripleo-validations/defaults/main.yml b/roles/tripleo-validations/defaults/main.yml
index 886d6dbbb..87070b7fd 100644
--- a/roles/tripleo-validations/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/tripleo-validations/defaults/main.yml
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ run_preintro_val_log: "{{ val_working_dir }}/run_preintro_validations_negative_t
 
 validations_dir: "/usr/share/openstack-tripleo-validations/validations"
 validations_static_inventory: "{{ val_working_dir }}/validations_static_inventory"
+validations_max_retries: 40
diff --git a/roles/tripleo-validations/templates/run-tripleo-validations.sh.j2 b/roles/tripleo-validations/templates/run-tripleo-validations.sh.j2
index bec02e5a1..bbe80531f 100755
--- a/roles/tripleo-validations/templates/run-tripleo-validations.sh.j2
+++ b/roles/tripleo-validations/templates/run-tripleo-validations.sh.j2
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ for validation_name in $LIST_VALIDATIONS; do
             sleep 1
             STATE=$(mistral execution-get -f value -c State "$ID")
             TRIES=$((TRIES+1))
-            if [ "$TRIES" -gt 40 ]; then
+            if [ "$TRIES" -gt {{ validations_max_retries }} ]; then
                 break
             fi
         done