seemingly fixed the certificate misstep but it still doesn't seem the communication with transport.ssl enabled is working. I am just getting timeout errors in elasticsearch...
Tribe log
[2016-08-12 16:42:47,162][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.create] [tribe1] no known master node, scheduling a retry
[2016-08-12 16:43:17,163][DEBUG][action.admin.indices.create] [tribe1] timed out while retrying [indices:admin/create] after failure (timeout [30s])
[2016-08-12 16:43:17,163][WARN ][rest.suppressed ] path: /.kibana, params: {index=.kibana}
MasterNotDiscoveredException[null]
kibana es instance log
2016-08-12 16:43:19,422][WARN ][discovery.zen ] [kibana-only] failed to validate incoming join request from node [{tribe1/kibana}{GxyIe0YeSRKhJWWHfB2OuA}{10.136.255.161}{10.136.255.161:9301}{data=false, client=true}]