diff --git a/charm-helpers-tests.yaml b/charm-helpers-tests.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..48b12f6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charm-helpers-tests.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+branch: lp:charm-helpers
+destination: tests/charmhelpers
+include:
+    - contrib.amulet
+    - contrib.openstack.amulet
diff --git a/hooks/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/context.py b/hooks/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/context.py
index 92c41b23..ea9cf1b6 100644
--- a/hooks/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/context.py
+++ b/hooks/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/context.py
@@ -753,6 +753,17 @@ class SubordinateConfigContext(OSContextGenerator):
         return ctxt
 
 
+class LogLevelContext(OSContextGenerator):
+
+    def __call__(self):
+        ctxt = {}
+        ctxt['debug'] = \
+            False if config('debug') is None else config('debug')
+        ctxt['verbose'] = \
+            False if config('verbose') is None else config('verbose')
+        return ctxt
+
+
 class SyslogContext(OSContextGenerator):
 
     def __call__(self):
diff --git a/tests/charmhelpers/__init__.py b/tests/charmhelpers/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/__init__.py b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/amulet/__init__.py b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/amulet/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/amulet/deployment.py b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/amulet/deployment.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9dc082ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/amulet/deployment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import amulet
+
+
+class AmuletDeployment(object):
+    """This class provides generic Amulet deployment and test runner
+       methods."""
+
+    def __init__(self, series=None):
+        """Initialize the deployment environment."""
+        self.series = None
+
+        if series:
+            self.series = series
+            self.d = amulet.Deployment(series=self.series)
+        else:
+            self.d = amulet.Deployment()
+
+    def _add_services(self, this_service, other_services):
+        """Add services to the deployment where this_service is the local charm
+           that we're focused on testing and other_services are the other
+           charms that come from the charm store."""
+        name, units = range(2)
+        self.this_service = this_service[name]
+        self.d.add(this_service[name], units=this_service[units])
+
+        for svc in other_services:
+            if self.series:
+                self.d.add(svc[name],
+                           charm='cs:{}/{}'.format(self.series, svc[name]),
+                           units=svc[units])
+            else:
+                self.d.add(svc[name], units=svc[units])
+
+    def _add_relations(self, relations):
+        """Add all of the relations for the services."""
+        for k, v in relations.iteritems():
+            self.d.relate(k, v)
+
+    def _configure_services(self, configs):
+        """Configure all of the services."""
+        for service, config in configs.iteritems():
+            self.d.configure(service, config)
+
+    def _deploy(self):
+        """Deploy environment and wait for all hooks to finish executing."""
+        try:
+            self.d.setup()
+            self.d.sentry.wait()
+        except amulet.helpers.TimeoutError:
+            amulet.raise_status(amulet.FAIL, msg="Deployment timed out")
+        except:
+            raise
+
+    def run_tests(self):
+        """Run all of the methods that are prefixed with 'test_'."""
+        for test in dir(self):
+            if test.startswith('test_'):
+                getattr(self, test)()
diff --git a/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/amulet/utils.py b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/amulet/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..31764568
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/amulet/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+import ConfigParser
+import io
+import logging
+import re
+import sys
+from time import sleep
+
+
+class AmuletUtils(object):
+    """This class provides common utility functions that are used by Amulet
+       tests."""
+
+    def __init__(self, log_level=logging.ERROR):
+        self.log = self.get_logger(level=log_level)
+
+    def get_logger(self, name="amulet-logger", level=logging.DEBUG):
+        """Get a logger object that will log to stdout."""
+        log = logging
+        logger = log.getLogger(name)
+        fmt = \
+            log.Formatter("%(asctime)s %(funcName)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s")
+
+        handler = log.StreamHandler(stream=sys.stdout)
+        handler.setLevel(level)
+        handler.setFormatter(fmt)
+
+        logger.addHandler(handler)
+        logger.setLevel(level)
+
+        return logger
+
+    def valid_ip(self, ip):
+        if re.match(r"^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$", ip):
+            return True
+        else:
+            return False
+
+    def valid_url(self, url):
+        p = re.compile(
+            r'^(?:http|ftp)s?://'
+            r'(?:(?:[A-Z0-9](?:[A-Z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Z0-9])?\.)+(?:[A-Z]{2,6}\.?|[A-Z0-9-]{2,}\.?)|' # flake8: noqa
+            r'localhost|'
+            r'\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})'
+            r'(?::\d+)?'
+            r'(?:/?|[/?]\S+)$',
+            re.IGNORECASE)
+        if p.match(url):
+            return True
+        else:
+            return False
+
+    def validate_services(self, commands):
+        """Verify the specified services are running on the corresponding
+           service units."""
+        for k, v in commands.iteritems():
+            for cmd in v:
+                output, code = k.run(cmd)
+                if code != 0:
+                    return "command `{}` returned {}".format(cmd, str(code))
+        return None
+
+    def _get_config(self, unit, filename):
+        """Get a ConfigParser object for parsing a unit's config file."""
+        file_contents = unit.file_contents(filename)
+        config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
+        config.readfp(io.StringIO(file_contents))
+        return config
+
+    def validate_config_data(self, sentry_unit, config_file, section, expected):
+        """Verify that the specified section of the config file contains
+           the expected option key:value pairs."""
+        config = self._get_config(sentry_unit, config_file)
+
+        if section != 'DEFAULT' and not config.has_section(section):
+            return "section [{}] does not exist".format(section)
+
+        for k in expected.keys():
+            if not config.has_option(section, k):
+                return "section [{}] is missing option {}".format(section, k)
+            if config.get(section, k) != expected[k]:
+                return "section [{}] {}:{} != expected {}:{}".format(section,
+                       k, config.get(section, k), k, expected[k])
+        return None
+
+    def _validate_dict_data(self, expected, actual):
+        """Compare expected dictionary data vs actual dictionary data.
+           The values in the 'expected' dictionary can be strings, bools, ints,
+           longs, or can be a function that evaluate a variable and returns a
+           bool."""
+        for k, v in expected.iteritems():
+            if k in actual:
+                if isinstance(v, basestring) or \
+                   isinstance(v, bool) or \
+                   isinstance(v, (int, long)):
+                    if v != actual[k]:
+                        return "{}:{}".format(k, actual[k])
+                elif not v(actual[k]):
+                    return "{}:{}".format(k, actual[k])
+            else:
+                return "key '{}' does not exist".format(k)
+        return None
+
+    def validate_relation_data(self, sentry_unit, relation, expected):
+        """Validate actual relation data based on expected relation data."""
+        actual = sentry_unit.relation(relation[0], relation[1])
+        self.log.debug('actual: {}'.format(repr(actual)))
+        return self._validate_dict_data(expected, actual)
+
+    def _validate_list_data(self, expected, actual):
+        """Compare expected list vs actual list data."""
+        for e in expected:
+            if e not in actual:
+                return "expected item {} not found in actual list".format(e)
+        return None
+
+    def not_null(self, string):
+        if string != None:
+            return True
+        else:
+            return False
+
+    def _get_file_mtime(self, sentry_unit, filename):
+        """Get last modification time of file."""
+        return sentry_unit.file_stat(filename)['mtime']
+
+    def _get_dir_mtime(self, sentry_unit, directory):
+        """Get last modification time of directory."""
+        return sentry_unit.directory_stat(directory)['mtime']
+
+    def _get_proc_start_time(self, sentry_unit, service, pgrep_full=False):
+        """Determine start time of the process based on the last modification
+           time of the /proc/pid directory. If pgrep_full is True, the process
+           name is matched against the full command line."""
+        if pgrep_full:
+            cmd = 'pgrep -o -f {}'.format(service)
+        else:
+            cmd = 'pgrep -o {}'.format(service)
+        proc_dir = '/proc/{}'.format(sentry_unit.run(cmd)[0].strip())
+        return self._get_dir_mtime(sentry_unit, proc_dir)
+
+    def service_restarted(self, sentry_unit, service, filename,
+                          pgrep_full=False):
+        """Compare a service's start time vs a file's last modification time
+           (such as a config file for that service) to determine if the service
+           has been restarted."""
+        sleep(10)
+        if self._get_proc_start_time(sentry_unit, service, pgrep_full) >= \
+           self._get_file_mtime(sentry_unit, filename):
+            return True
+        else:
+            return False
+
+    def relation_error(self, name, data):
+        return 'unexpected relation data in {} - {}'.format(name, data)
+
+    def endpoint_error(self, name, data):
+        return 'unexpected endpoint data in {} - {}'.format(name, data)
diff --git a/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/__init__.py b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/amulet/__init__.py b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/amulet/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/amulet/deployment.py b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/amulet/deployment.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e476b6f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/amulet/deployment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+from charmhelpers.contrib.amulet.deployment import (
+    AmuletDeployment
+)
+
+
+class OpenStackAmuletDeployment(AmuletDeployment):
+    """This class inherits from AmuletDeployment and has additional support
+       that is specifically for use by OpenStack charms."""
+
+    def __init__(self, series=None, openstack=None, source=None):
+        """Initialize the deployment environment."""
+        super(OpenStackAmuletDeployment, self).__init__(series)
+        self.openstack = openstack
+        self.source = source
+
+    def _add_services(self, this_service, other_services):
+        """Add services to the deployment and set openstack-origin."""
+        super(OpenStackAmuletDeployment, self)._add_services(this_service,
+                                                             other_services)
+        name = 0
+        services = other_services
+        services.append(this_service)
+        use_source = ['mysql', 'mongodb', 'rabbitmq-server', 'ceph']
+
+        if self.openstack:
+            for svc in services:
+                if svc[name] not in use_source:
+                    config = {'openstack-origin': self.openstack}
+                    self.d.configure(svc[name], config)
+
+        if self.source:
+            for svc in services:
+                if svc[name] in use_source:
+                    config = {'source': self.source}
+                    self.d.configure(svc[name], config)
+
+    def _configure_services(self, configs):
+        """Configure all of the services."""
+        for service, config in configs.iteritems():
+            self.d.configure(service, config)
+
+    def _get_openstack_release(self):
+        """Return an integer representing the enum value of the openstack
+           release."""
+        self.precise_essex, self.precise_folsom, self.precise_grizzly, \
+            self.precise_havana, self.precise_icehouse, \
+            self.trusty_icehouse = range(6)
+        releases = {
+            ('precise', None): self.precise_essex,
+            ('precise', 'cloud:precise-folsom'): self.precise_folsom,
+            ('precise', 'cloud:precise-grizzly'): self.precise_grizzly,
+            ('precise', 'cloud:precise-havana'): self.precise_havana,
+            ('precise', 'cloud:precise-icehouse'): self.precise_icehouse,
+            ('trusty', None): self.trusty_icehouse}
+        return releases[(self.series, self.openstack)]
diff --git a/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/amulet/utils.py b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/amulet/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..222281e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/charmhelpers/contrib/openstack/amulet/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+import logging
+import os
+import time
+import urllib
+
+import glanceclient.v1.client as glance_client
+import keystoneclient.v2_0 as keystone_client
+import novaclient.v1_1.client as nova_client
+
+from charmhelpers.contrib.amulet.utils import (
+    AmuletUtils
+)
+
+DEBUG = logging.DEBUG
+ERROR = logging.ERROR
+
+
+class OpenStackAmuletUtils(AmuletUtils):
+    """This class inherits from AmuletUtils and has additional support
+       that is specifically for use by OpenStack charms."""
+
+    def __init__(self, log_level=ERROR):
+        """Initialize the deployment environment."""
+        super(OpenStackAmuletUtils, self).__init__(log_level)
+
+    def validate_endpoint_data(self, endpoints, admin_port, internal_port,
+                               public_port, expected):
+        """Validate actual endpoint data vs expected endpoint data. The ports
+           are used to find the matching endpoint."""
+        found = False
+        for ep in endpoints:
+            self.log.debug('endpoint: {}'.format(repr(ep)))
+            if admin_port in ep.adminurl and internal_port in ep.internalurl \
+               and public_port in ep.publicurl:
+                found = True
+                actual = {'id': ep.id,
+                          'region': ep.region,
+                          'adminurl': ep.adminurl,
+                          'internalurl': ep.internalurl,
+                          'publicurl': ep.publicurl,
+                          'service_id': ep.service_id}
+                ret = self._validate_dict_data(expected, actual)
+                if ret:
+                    return 'unexpected endpoint data - {}'.format(ret)
+
+        if not found:
+            return 'endpoint not found'
+
+    def validate_svc_catalog_endpoint_data(self, expected, actual):
+        """Validate a list of actual service catalog endpoints vs a list of
+           expected service catalog endpoints."""
+        self.log.debug('actual: {}'.format(repr(actual)))
+        for k, v in expected.iteritems():
+            if k in actual:
+                ret = self._validate_dict_data(expected[k][0], actual[k][0])
+                if ret:
+                    return self.endpoint_error(k, ret)
+            else:
+                return "endpoint {} does not exist".format(k)
+        return ret
+
+    def validate_tenant_data(self, expected, actual):
+        """Validate a list of actual tenant data vs list of expected tenant
+           data."""
+        self.log.debug('actual: {}'.format(repr(actual)))
+        for e in expected:
+            found = False
+            for act in actual:
+                a = {'enabled': act.enabled, 'description': act.description,
+                     'name': act.name, 'id': act.id}
+                if e['name'] == a['name']:
+                    found = True
+                    ret = self._validate_dict_data(e, a)
+                    if ret:
+                        return "unexpected tenant data - {}".format(ret)
+            if not found:
+                return "tenant {} does not exist".format(e['name'])
+        return ret
+
+    def validate_role_data(self, expected, actual):
+        """Validate a list of actual role data vs a list of expected role
+           data."""
+        self.log.debug('actual: {}'.format(repr(actual)))
+        for e in expected:
+            found = False
+            for act in actual:
+                a = {'name': act.name, 'id': act.id}
+                if e['name'] == a['name']:
+                    found = True
+                    ret = self._validate_dict_data(e, a)
+                    if ret:
+                        return "unexpected role data - {}".format(ret)
+            if not found:
+                return "role {} does not exist".format(e['name'])
+        return ret
+
+    def validate_user_data(self, expected, actual):
+        """Validate a list of actual user data vs a list of expected user
+           data."""
+        self.log.debug('actual: {}'.format(repr(actual)))
+        for e in expected:
+            found = False
+            for act in actual:
+                a = {'enabled': act.enabled, 'name': act.name,
+                     'email': act.email, 'tenantId': act.tenantId,
+                     'id': act.id}
+                if e['name'] == a['name']:
+                    found = True
+                    ret = self._validate_dict_data(e, a)
+                    if ret:
+                        return "unexpected user data - {}".format(ret)
+            if not found:
+                return "user {} does not exist".format(e['name'])
+        return ret
+
+    def validate_flavor_data(self, expected, actual):
+        """Validate a list of actual flavors vs a list of expected flavors."""
+        self.log.debug('actual: {}'.format(repr(actual)))
+        act = [a.name for a in actual]
+        return self._validate_list_data(expected, act)
+
+    def tenant_exists(self, keystone, tenant):
+        """Return True if tenant exists"""
+        return tenant in [t.name for t in keystone.tenants.list()]
+
+    def authenticate_keystone_admin(self, keystone_sentry, user, password,
+                                    tenant):
+        """Authenticates admin user with the keystone admin endpoint."""
+        service_ip = \
+            keystone_sentry.relation('shared-db',
+                                     'mysql:shared-db')['private-address']
+        ep = "http://{}:35357/v2.0".format(service_ip.strip().decode('utf-8'))
+        return keystone_client.Client(username=user, password=password,
+                                      tenant_name=tenant, auth_url=ep)
+
+    def authenticate_keystone_user(self, keystone, user, password, tenant):
+        """Authenticates a regular user with the keystone public endpoint."""
+        ep = keystone.service_catalog.url_for(service_type='identity',
+                                              endpoint_type='publicURL')
+        return keystone_client.Client(username=user, password=password,
+                                      tenant_name=tenant, auth_url=ep)
+
+    def authenticate_glance_admin(self, keystone):
+        """Authenticates admin user with glance."""
+        ep = keystone.service_catalog.url_for(service_type='image',
+                                              endpoint_type='adminURL')
+        return glance_client.Client(ep, token=keystone.auth_token)
+
+    def authenticate_nova_user(self, keystone, user, password, tenant):
+        """Authenticates a regular user with nova-api."""
+        ep = keystone.service_catalog.url_for(service_type='identity',
+                                              endpoint_type='publicURL')
+        return nova_client.Client(username=user, api_key=password,
+                                  project_id=tenant, auth_url=ep)
+
+    def create_cirros_image(self, glance, image_name):
+        """Download the latest cirros image and upload it to glance."""
+        http_proxy = os.getenv('AMULET_HTTP_PROXY')
+        self.log.debug('AMULET_HTTP_PROXY: {}'.format(http_proxy))
+        if http_proxy:
+            proxies = {'http': http_proxy}
+            opener = urllib.FancyURLopener(proxies)
+        else:
+            opener = urllib.FancyURLopener()
+
+        f = opener.open("http://download.cirros-cloud.net/version/released")
+        version = f.read().strip()
+        cirros_img = "tests/cirros-{}-x86_64-disk.img".format(version)
+
+        if not os.path.exists(cirros_img):
+            cirros_url = "http://{}/{}/{}".format("download.cirros-cloud.net",
+                                                  version, cirros_img)
+            opener.retrieve(cirros_url, cirros_img)
+        f.close()
+
+        with open(cirros_img) as f:
+            image = glance.images.create(name=image_name, is_public=True,
+                                         disk_format='qcow2',
+                                         container_format='bare', data=f)
+        return image
+
+    def delete_image(self, glance, image):
+        """Delete the specified image."""
+        glance.images.delete(image)
+
+    def create_instance(self, nova, image_name, instance_name, flavor):
+        """Create the specified instance."""
+        image = nova.images.find(name=image_name)
+        flavor = nova.flavors.find(name=flavor)
+        instance = nova.servers.create(name=instance_name, image=image,
+                                       flavor=flavor)
+
+        count = 1
+        status = instance.status
+        while status != 'ACTIVE' and count < 60:
+            time.sleep(3)
+            instance = nova.servers.get(instance.id)
+            status = instance.status
+            self.log.debug('instance status: {}'.format(status))
+            count += 1
+
+        if status == 'BUILD':
+            return None
+
+        return instance
+
+    def delete_instance(self, nova, instance):
+        """Delete the specified instance."""
+        nova.servers.delete(instance)