diff --git a/tools/pip-requires b/tools/pip-requires
index d9fbd1b679e1..7db3a2a0b68d 100644
--- a/tools/pip-requires
+++ b/tools/pip-requires
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ pyasn1
 Babel>=0.9.6
 iso8601>=0.1.4
 httplib2
+requests>=1.1,<1.2.1 # order-dependent python-cinderclient req cap, bug 1182271
 python-cinderclient>=1.0.1
 python-quantumclient>=2.2.0,<3.0.0
 python-glanceclient>=0.5.0,<2