so I think I'm in the right direction
adding verify= and pointing to my CA.pem looks like the right approach

now, how do I use it with ClearML API?

cleanup_service

for task in tasks:
    try:
      deleted_task = Task.get_task(task_id=task.id)
      print (deleted_task.name)
      deleted_task.delete(
               delete_artifacts_and_models=True,
               skip_models_used_by_other_tasks=True,
               raise_on_error=False
      )

it throw down the SSL error, for each that have stuff in fileserver that it's trying to delete

when uploading anything to fileserver

    task = Task.init(project_name=project_name, task_name=exp_name, continue_last_task=True)
    logger = task.get_logger()

    img = Image.open(f"./1_model.png").convert("RGB")

    logger.report_image(title=f"cfg_0", series="Model", iteration=1, image=img)