diff --git a/IM/tosca/Tosca.py b/IM/tosca/Tosca.py
index 9f7b426f..f4f00802 100644
--- a/IM/tosca/Tosca.py
+++ b/IM/tosca/Tosca.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import copy
 import operator
 import requests
+import requests_cache
 import json
 import re
 from toscaparser.nodetemplate import NodeTemplate
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ class Tosca:
     logger = logging.getLogger('InfrastructureManager')
 
     def __init__(self, yaml_str, verify=True):
+        requests_cache.install_cache('tosca_cache', cache_control=True)
         Tosca.logger.debug("TOSCA: %s" % yaml_str)
         self.yaml = yaml.safe_load(yaml_str)
         if not verify:
diff --git a/requirements-tests.txt b/requirements-tests.txt
index bffc28f8..60573b55 100644
--- a/requirements-tests.txt
+++ b/requirements-tests.txt
@@ -33,4 +33,5 @@ psutil
 scar
 nose
 mock
-coverage
\ No newline at end of file
+coverage
+requests-cache
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 86d4cb48..5a4e24ff 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -70,5 +70,5 @@
       install_requires=["ansible >=2.4", "paramiko >= 1.14", "PyYAML", suds_pkg, sqlite_pkg, "cheroot",
                         "boto >= 2.29", "apache-libcloud >= 3.2.0", "RADL >= 1.1.5", "bottle", "netaddr",
                         "requests >= 2.19", "scp", "tosca-parser", 'defusedxml', 'urllib3>=1.23', 'hvac',
-                        'psutil', 'scar']
+                        'psutil', 'scar', 'requests-cache >= 1.0.0']
       )