Using SSL with SQLAlchemy

If you just connect from a client machine with an ssl connection (so you don't have access to the cert and key), you could simple add ssl=true to your uri.

Edit:

For example: mysql_db = "mysql+mysqlconnector://<user>:<pass>@<addr>/<schema>?ssl=true"

I changed the DBAPI to MySQL-Connector, and used the following code:

ssl_args = {'ssl_ca': ca_path}
engine = create_engine("mysql+mysqlconnector://<user>:<pass>@<addr>/<schema>",
                        connect_args=ssl_args)

And now it works.