diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_Suse_family.yml b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_Suse_family.yml
index a1394b814..020ff4bba 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_Suse_family.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/defaults/required_defaults_Suse_family.yml
@@ -47,4 +47,5 @@ required_packages:
   - socat
   - python-pip
   - gcc
+  - python-PyMySQL
 iscsi_client_package: "open-iscsi"
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/tasks/install.yml b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/tasks/install.yml
index 53905f481..7521a408b 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/tasks/install.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-ironic-install/tasks/install.yml
@@ -85,6 +85,16 @@
 - name: "Install pymysql in venv if using"
   include: pip_install.yml package=pymysql virtualenv=bifrost_venv_dir
   when: skip_install is not defined and (enable_venv | bool == true)
+# NOTE(hwoarang): The python-pymysql package is not available on the CentOS7
+# and old Debian/Ubuntu repositories so we need to get it via pip
+- name: "Install pymysql on CentOS/Ubuntu if necessary"
+  include: pip_install.yml package=pymysql
+  when:
+    - skip_install is not defined
+    - enable_venv | bool == false
+    - (ansible_distribution == 'CentOS' and ansible_distribution_major_version <= 7) or
+      (ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu' and ansible_distribution_version|version_compare('14.10', '=='))
+
 - name: "Install Ironic using pip"
   include: pip_install.yml
     package=ironic