diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ca2ac14c..21adf3c5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ doc/build/
 *.log
 *.sql
 *.sqlite
+logs/*
 
 # OS generated files #
 ######################
@@ -61,6 +62,10 @@ releasenotes/build
 
 # Test temp files
 tests/plugins
+tests/playbooks
+tests/test.retry
 
-# Vagrant testing artifacts
+# Vagrant artifacts
 .vagrant
+
+
diff --git a/manual-test.rc b/manual-test.rc
index fa1cdf95..f7e77710 100644
--- a/manual-test.rc
+++ b/manual-test.rc
@@ -18,5 +18,16 @@ export ANSIBLE_LIBRARY=${HOME}/.ansible/plugins/library
 # specified in ansible.cfg
 export ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=${HOME}/.ansible/roles:$(pwd)/..
 
+export ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS="-o ControlMaster=no \
+  -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null \
+  -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
+  -o ServerAliveInterval=64 \
+  -o ServerAliveCountMax=1024 \
+  -o Compression=no \
+  -o TCPKeepAlive=yes \
+  -o VerifyHostKeyDNS=no \
+  -o ForwardX11=no \
+  -o ForwardAgent=yes"
+
 echo "Run manual functional tests by executing the following:"
 echo "# ./.tox/functional/bin/ansible-playbook -i tests/inventory tests/test.yml -e \"rolename=$(pwd)\""
diff --git a/run_tests.sh b/run_tests.sh
index 0a49aa3e..482a3894 100755
--- a/run_tests.sh
+++ b/run_tests.sh
@@ -24,23 +24,23 @@ if [ ! "$(which pip)" ]; then
 fi
 
 # Install bindep and tox
-pip install bindep tox
+sudo pip install bindep tox
 
 # CentOS 7 requires two additional packages:
 #   redhat-lsb-core - for bindep profile support
 #   epel-release    - required to install python-ndg_httpsclient/python2-pyasn1
 if [ "$(which yum)" ]; then
-    yum -y install redhat-lsb-core epel-release
+    sudo yum -y install redhat-lsb-core epel-release
 fi
 
 # Install OS packages using bindep
 if apt-get -v >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
-    apt-get update
+    sudo apt-get update
     DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
-      apt-get -q --option "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold" \
+      sudo apt-get -q --option "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold" \
       --assume-yes install `bindep -b -f bindep.txt test`
 else
-    yum install -y `bindep -b -f bindep.txt test`
+    sudo yum install -y `bindep -b -f bindep.txt test`
 fi
 
 # run through each tox env and execute the test
diff --git a/tests/group_vars/all_containers.yml b/tests/group_vars/all_containers.yml
index 4cc97942..f37df47c 100644
--- a/tests/group_vars/all_containers.yml
+++ b/tests/group_vars/all_containers.yml
@@ -13,14 +13,13 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-ansible_ssh_host: "{{ ansible_host }}"
 container_name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
 container_networks:
   management_address:
     address: "{{ ansible_host }}"
-    bridge: "lxcbr0"
+    bridge: "br-mgmt"
     interface: "eth1"
-    netmask: "255.255.252.0"
+    netmask: "255.255.255.0"
     type: "veth"
 physical_host: localhost
 properties:
diff --git a/tests/test-install-tempest.yml b/tests/host_vars/localhost.yml
similarity index 73%
rename from tests/test-install-tempest.yml
rename to tests/host_vars/localhost.yml
index fcf51960..65ddeaa0 100644
--- a/tests/test-install-tempest.yml
+++ b/tests/host_vars/localhost.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-# Copyright 2015, Rackspace US, Inc.
+# Copyright 2016, Rackspace US, Inc.
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -13,11 +13,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-- name: Playbook for deploying tempest
-  hosts: horizon_all
-  user: root
-  gather_facts: true
-  roles:
-    - role: "os_tempest"
-  vars_files:
-    - test-vars.yml
+bridges:
+  - "br-mgmt"
+
+ansible_python_interpreter: "/usr/bin/python2"
diff --git a/tests/inventory b/tests/inventory
index dfde8337..eb11761f 100644
--- a/tests/inventory
+++ b/tests/inventory
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [all]
-localhost ansible_connection=local ansible_become=True
+localhost ansible_become=True
 infra1 ansible_host=10.100.100.2 ansible_become=True ansible_user=root
 keystone1 ansible_host=10.100.100.3 ansible_become=True ansible_user=root
 horizon1 ansible_host=10.100.100.4 ansible_become=True ansible_user=root
@@ -15,12 +15,19 @@ infra1
 [galera_all]
 infra1
 
+[memcached_all]
+infra1
+
 [service_all:children]
 rabbitmq_all
 galera_all
+memcached_all
 
 [keystone_all]
 keystone1
 
+[utility_all]
+keystone1
+
 [horizon_all]
 horizon1
diff --git a/tests/test-horizon-functional.yml b/tests/test-horizon-functional.yml
index 60264f81..01d1a9ea 100644
--- a/tests/test-horizon-functional.yml
+++ b/tests/test-horizon-functional.yml
@@ -57,11 +57,19 @@
       until: add_service|success
       retries: 5
       delay: 10
+  vars_files:
+    - playbooks/test-vars.yml
+    - test-vars.yml
+
+- name: Playbook for tempest testing of horizon
+  hosts: utility_all
+  user: root
+  gather_facts: false
+  tasks:
     - name: Run tempest
       shell: |
         . {{ tempest_bin }}/activate
-        {{ tempest_bin | dirname }}/run_tempest.sh --no-virtual-env ${RUN_TEMPEST_OPTS} tempest_horizon.tests.scenario.test_dashboard_basic_ops.TestDashboardBasicOps
-      environment:
-        RUN_TEMPEST_OPTS: "--serial"
+        {{ tempest_bin | dirname }}/run_tempest.sh --no-virtual-env --serial tempest_horizon.tests.scenario.test_dashboard_basic_ops.TestDashboardBasicOps
   vars_files:
+    - playbooks/test-vars.yml
     - test-vars.yml
diff --git a/tests/test-install-horizon.yml b/tests/test-install-horizon.yml
index 74b56c9f..b8720907 100644
--- a/tests/test-install-horizon.yml
+++ b/tests/test-install-horizon.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,33 @@
   hosts: horizon_all
   user: root
   gather_facts: true
+  pre_tasks:
+    - name: Create DB for service
+      mysql_db:
+        login_user: "{{ galera_root_user }}"
+        login_password: "{{ galera_root_password }}"
+        login_host: "localhost"
+        name: "{{ horizon_galera_database }}"
+        state: "present"
+      when: inventory_hostname == groups['horizon_all'][0]
+      delegate_to: "{{ hostvars[groups['galera_all'][0]]['ansible_host'] }}"
+    - name: Grant access to the DB for the service
+      mysql_user:
+        login_user: "{{ galera_root_user }}"
+        login_password: "{{ galera_root_password }}"
+        login_host: "localhost"
+        name: "{{ horizon_galera_database }}"
+        password: "{{ horizon_container_mysql_password }}"
+        host: "{{ item }}"
+        state: "present"
+        priv: "{{ horizon_galera_database }}.*:ALL"
+      with_items:
+        - "localhost"
+        - "%"
+      when: inventory_hostname == groups['horizon_all'][0]
+      delegate_to: "{{ hostvars[groups['galera_all'][0]]['ansible_host'] }}"
   roles:
-    - role: "{{ rolename | basename }}"
+    - role: "os_horizon"
   vars_files:
+    - playbooks/test-vars.yml
     - test-vars.yml
diff --git a/tests/test-install-infra.yml b/tests/test-install-infra.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 28f28b56..00000000
--- a/tests/test-install-infra.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright 2015, Rackspace US, Inc.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-- name: Playbook for deploying infra services
-  hosts: service_all
-  user: root
-  gather_facts: true
-  roles:
-    - role: "rabbitmq_server"
-      rabbitmq_cookie_token: secrete
-    - role: "galera_server"
-      galera_root_password: secrete
-      galera_root_user: root
-      galera_innodb_buffer_pool_size: 512M
-      galera_innodb_log_buffer_size: 32M
-      galera_server_id: "{{ inventory_hostname | string_2_int }}"
-      galera_wsrep_node_name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
-      galera_wsrep_provider_options:
-        - { option: "gcache.size", value: "32M" }
-      galera_server_id: "{{ inventory_hostname | string_2_int }}"
-  post_tasks:
-    - name: Create DB for service
-      mysql_db:
-        login_user: "{{ galera_root_user }}"
-        login_password: "{{ galera_root_password }}"
-        login_host: "127.0.0.1"
-        name: "{{ horizon_galera_database }}"
-        state: "present"
-      when: inventory_hostname == groups['service_all'][0]
-    - name: Grant access to the DB for the service
-      mysql_user:
-        login_user: "{{ galera_root_user }}"
-        login_password: "{{ galera_root_password }}"
-        login_host: "127.0.0.1"
-        name: "{{ horizon_galera_user }}"
-        password: "{{ horizon_container_mysql_password }}"
-        host: "{{ item }}"
-        state: "present"
-        priv: "{{ horizon_galera_database }}.*:ALL"
-      with_items:
-        - "localhost"
-        - "%"
-      when: inventory_hostname == groups['service_all'][0]
-  vars_files:
-    - test-vars.yml
diff --git a/tests/test-install-keystone.yml b/tests/test-install-keystone.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index a99526d6..00000000
--- a/tests/test-install-keystone.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright 2015, Rackspace US, Inc.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-- name: Playbook for deploying keystone
-  hosts: keystone_all
-  user: root
-  gather_facts: true
-  pre_tasks:
-    - name: Ensure rabbitmq vhost
-      rabbitmq_vhost:
-        name: "{{ keystone_rabbitmq_vhost }}"
-        state: "present"
-      delegate_to: "10.100.100.2"
-      when: inventory_hostname == groups['keystone_all'][0]
-    - name: Ensure rabbitmq user
-      rabbitmq_user:
-        user: "{{ keystone_rabbitmq_userid }}"
-        password: "{{ keystone_rabbitmq_password }}"
-        vhost: "{{ keystone_rabbitmq_vhost }}"
-        configure_priv: ".*"
-        read_priv: ".*"
-        write_priv: ".*"
-        state: "present"
-      delegate_to: "10.100.100.2"
-      when: inventory_hostname == groups['keystone_all'][0]
-    - name: Create DB for service
-      mysql_db:
-        login_user: "root"
-        login_password: "secrete"
-        login_host: "localhost"
-        name: "{{ keystone_galera_database }}"
-        state: "present"
-      delegate_to: "10.100.100.2"
-      when: inventory_hostname == groups['keystone_all'][0]
-    - name: Grant access to the DB for the service
-      mysql_user:
-        login_user: "root"
-        login_password: "secrete"
-        login_host: "localhost"
-        name: "{{ keystone_galera_database }}"
-        password: "{{ keystone_container_mysql_password }}"
-        host: "{{ item }}"
-        state: "present"
-        priv: "{{ keystone_galera_database }}.*:ALL"
-      with_items:
-        - "localhost"
-        - "%"
-      delegate_to: "10.100.100.2"
-      when: inventory_hostname == groups['keystone_all'][0]
-  roles:
-    - role: os_keystone
-  vars_files:
-    - test-vars.yml
diff --git a/tests/test-prepare-containers.yml b/tests/test-prepare-containers.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index cf46e8ab..00000000
--- a/tests/test-prepare-containers.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright 2015, Rackspace US, Inc.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-- name: Playbook for creating containers
-  hosts: all_containers
-  connection: local
-  gather_facts: false
-  roles:
-    - role: "lxc_container_create"
-      lxc_container_release: trusty
-      lxc_container_backing_store: dir
-      global_environment_variables:
-        PATH: "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
-  post_tasks:
-    - name: Wait for ssh to be available
-      local_action:
-        module: wait_for
-        port: "{{ ansible_ssh_port | default('22') }}"
-        host: "{{ ansible_ssh_host | default(inventory_hostname) }}"
-        search_regex: OpenSSH
-        delay: 1
diff --git a/tests/test-prepare-host.yml b/tests/test-prepare-host.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f8926411..00000000
--- a/tests/test-prepare-host.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright 2015, Rackspace US, Inc.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-- name: Playbook for configuring LXC host
-  hosts: localhost
-  pre_tasks:
-    # Make sure OS does not have a stale package cache.
-    - name: Update apt cache
-      apt:
-        update_cache: yes
-      when: ansible_os_family == 'Debian'
-    - name: Ensure root's new public ssh key is in authorized_keys
-      authorized_key:
-        user: root
-        key: "{{ hostvars['localhost']['lxc_container_ssh_key'] }}"
-        manage_dir: no
-    - set_fact:
-        lxc_container_ssh_key: "{{ hostvars['localhost']['lxc_container_ssh_key'] }}"
-    - name: Check if this is an OpenStack-CI nodepool instance
-      stat:
-        path: /etc/nodepool/provider
-      register: nodepool
-    - name: Set the files to copy into the container cache for OpenStack-CI instances
-      set_fact:
-        lxc_container_cache_files:
-          - { src: '/etc/pip.conf', dest: '/etc/pip.conf' }
-      when: nodepool.stat.exists | bool
-  roles:
-    - role: "lxc_hosts"
-      lxc_net_address: 10.100.100.1
-      lxc_net_dhcp_range: 10.100.100.8,10.100.100.253
-      lxc_net_bridge: lxcbr0
-      lxc_kernel_options:
-        - { key: 'fs.inotify.max_user_instances', value: 1024 }
diff --git a/tests/test-prepare-keys.yml b/tests/test-prepare-keys.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index a4fad4f5..00000000
--- a/tests/test-prepare-keys.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
----
-# Copyright 2015, Rackspace US, Inc.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# NOTE: we use become_user because setting become: no or become: false
-#       doesn't seem to override the ansible_become=true in the
-#       inventory
-- name: Playbook for establishing ssh keys
-  hosts: localhost
-  become_user: "{{ ansible_ssh_user }}"
-  pre_tasks:
-    - name: Create ssh key pair for root
-      user:
-        name: "{{ ansible_ssh_user }}"
-        generate_ssh_key: "yes"
-        ssh_key_bits: 2048
-        ssh_key_file: ".ssh/id_rsa"
-    - name: Get the calling user's key
-      command: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
-      register: key_get
-    - set_fact:
-        lxc_container_ssh_key: "{{ key_get.stdout }}"
diff --git a/tests/test-vars.yml b/tests/test-vars.yml
index 6993e0fb..48b1b851 100644
--- a/tests/test-vars.yml
+++ b/tests/test-vars.yml
@@ -13,15 +13,11 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-external_lb_vip_address: 10.100.100.3
-galera_client_drop_config_file: false
-galera_root_password: "secrete"
-galera_root_user: "root"
 horizon_developer_mode: true
 horizon_venv_tag: "testing"
 horizon_git_install_branch: master
 horizon_requirements_git_install_branch: master
-horizon_galera_address: 10.100.100.2
+horizon_galera_address: "{{ hostvars[groups['galera_all'][0]]['ansible_host'] }}"
 horizon_galera_database: dash
 horizon_galera_user: dash
 horizon_rabbitmq_password: "secrete"
@@ -29,35 +25,11 @@ horizon_rabbitmq_userid: horizon
 horizon_rabbitmq_vhost: /horizon
 horizon_container_mysql_password: "SuperSecrete"
 horizon_secret_key: "SuperSecreteHorizonKey"
-horizon_external_ssl: false
+horizon_external_ssl: False
 horizon_ssl_protocol: "ALL -SSLv2 -SSLv3"
 horizon_ssl_cipher_suite: "ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS"
-internal_lb_vip_address: 10.100.100.3
-keystone_admin_tenant_name: admin
-keystone_admin_user_name: admin
-keystone_auth_admin_password: "SuperSecretePassword"
-keystone_container_mysql_password: "SuperSecrete"
-keystone_developer_mode: true
-keystone_galera_address: 10.100.100.2
-keystone_galera_database: keystone
-keystone_git_install_branch: master
-keystone_rabbitmq_password: "secrete"
-keystone_rabbitmq_port: 5671
-keystone_rabbitmq_servers: 10.100.100.2
-keystone_rabbitmq_use_ssl: true
-keystone_rabbitmq_userid: keystone
-keystone_rabbitmq_vhost: /keystone
-keystone_requirements_git_install_branch: master
-keystone_service_adminuri: "http://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:35357"
-keystone_service_adminuri_insecure: false
-keystone_service_adminurl: "{{ keystone_service_adminuri }}/v3"
-keystone_service_internaluri: "http://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:5000"
-keystone_service_internaluri_insecure: false
-keystone_service_internalurl: "{{ keystone_service_internaluri }}/v3"
-keystone_service_password: "secrete"
-keystone_venv_tag: "testing"
-memcached_encryption_key: "secrete"
-memcached_servers: 127.0.0.1
+
+# User for nova service registration required for Horizon tempest tests
 nova_service_name: nova
 nova_service_type: compute
 nova_service_description: "Nova Compute Service"
@@ -70,31 +42,22 @@ nova_service_adminuri: "{{ nova_service_proto }}://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}
 nova_service_adminurl: "{{ nova_service_adminuri }}/v2.1/%(tenant_id)s"
 nova_service_internaluri: "{{ nova_service_proto }}://{{ internal_lb_vip_address }}:{{ nova_service_port }}"
 nova_service_internalurl: "{{ nova_service_internaluri }}/v2.1/%(tenant_id)s"
-openrc_os_auth_url: "http://127.0.0.1:5000/v3"
-openrc_os_domain_name: "Default"
-openrc_os_password: "{{ keystone_auth_admin_password }}"
-tempest_dashboard_login_url: "https://{{ ansible_hostname }}/auth/login/"
-tempest_dashboard_url: "https://{{ ansible_hostname }}/"
-tempest_developer_mode: True
-tempest_git_install_branch: master
+
+tempest_dashboard_login_url: "https://{{ hostvars[groups['horizon_all'][0]]['ansible_host'] }}/auth/login/"
+tempest_dashboard_url: "https://{{ hostvars[groups['horizon_all'][0]]['ansible_host'] }}/"
+
 tempest_venv_tag: "{{ tempest_git_install_branch }}"
 # tempest_bin is the same as the default in os_tempest role, but we set
 # it again here so we can refer to it in test-horizon-functional.yml
 tempest_bin: "/opt/tempest_{{ tempest_venv_tag }}/bin"
-tempest_log_dir: "/var/log/"
-tempest_main_group: horizon_all
-tempest_service_available_aodh: False
-tempest_service_available_ceilometer: False
-tempest_service_available_cinder: False
-tempest_service_available_glance: False
-tempest_service_available_heat: False
-tempest_service_available_horizon: True
-tempest_service_available_neutron: False
-tempest_service_available_nova: False
-tempest_service_available_swift: False
 tempest_plugins:
   - name: tempest-horizon
-    repo: https://git.openstack.org/openstack/tempest-horizon
-    branch: master
+    repo: https://github.com/trumant/tempest-horizon
+    branch: toggle_cert_validation
+
+tempest_tempest_conf_overrides:
+  dashboard:
+    disable_ssl_certificate_validation: True
+
 horizon_config_overrides:
   X_TEST_OPTION: True
diff --git a/tests/test.yml b/tests/test.yml
index f964bbab..cfeda083 100644
--- a/tests/test.yml
+++ b/tests/test.yml
@@ -13,26 +13,20 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-# Prepare the user ssh keys
-- include: test-prepare-keys.yml
-
-# Prepare the host
-- include: test-prepare-host.yml
-
-# Prepare the containers
-- include: test-prepare-containers.yml
+# Setup the host
+- include: playbooks/test-setup-host.yml
 
 # Install RabbitMQ/MariaDB
-- include: test-install-infra.yml
+- include: playbooks/test-install-infra.yml
 
 # Install Keystone
-- include: test-install-keystone.yml
+- include: playbooks/test-install-keystone.yml
 
 # Install Horizon
 - include: test-install-horizon.yml
 
 # Install Tempest
-- include: test-install-tempest.yml
+- include: playbooks/test-install-tempest.yml
 
 # Test Horizon
 - include: test-horizon-functional.yml
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 1416d0c1..39f231c4 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ commands =
 [testenv:ansible]
 deps =
     {[testenv]deps}
-    ansible==1.9.4
+    ansible==2.1.1
     ansible-lint>=2.7.0,<3.0.0
 setenv =
     {[testenv]setenv}
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ setenv =
     # This is required as the default is '/etc/ansible/roles' or a path
     # specified in ansible.cfg
     ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH = {homedir}/.ansible/roles:{toxinidir}/..
+    ANSIBLE_TRANSPORT = "ssh"
 commands =
     rm -rf {homedir}/.ansible/plugins
     git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-plugins \
@@ -124,6 +125,11 @@ commands =
     ansible-galaxy install \
                    --role-file={toxinidir}/tests/ansible-role-requirements.yml \
                    --force
+    rm -rf {homedir}/.ansible/roles/os_horizon
+    bash -c "ln -s {toxinidir} {homedir}/.ansible/roles/os_horizon"
+    rm -rf {toxinidir}/tests/playbooks
+    git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/openstack-ansible-tests \
+              {toxinidir}/tests/playbooks
 
 
 [testenv:ansible-syntax]
@@ -136,7 +142,6 @@ commands =
     ansible-playbook -i {toxinidir}/tests/inventory \
                      --syntax-check \
                      --list-tasks \
-                     -e "rolename={toxinidir}" \
                      {toxinidir}/tests/test.yml
 
 
@@ -148,6 +153,22 @@ commands =
     ansible-lint {toxinidir}
 
 
+[testenv:func_base]
+# NOTE(odyssey4me): this target does not use constraints because
+# it doesn't work in OpenStack-CI yet. Once that's fixed, we can
+# drop the install_command.
+install_command =
+    pip install -U --force-reinstall {opts} {packages}
+
+
+[testenv:func_logs]
+commands =
+    bash -c 'mkdir -p {toxinidir}/logs'
+    bash -c 'rsync --archive --verbose --ignore-errors /var/log/ /openstack/log/ {toxinidir}/logs/ || true'
+    bash -c 'find "{toxinidir}/logs/" -type f | sed "p;s|$|.txt|" | xargs -n2 mv'
+    bash -c 'command gzip --best --recursive "{toxinidir}/logs/"'
+
+
 [testenv:functional]
 # Ignore_errors is set to true so that the logs are collected at the
 #  end of the run. This will not produce a false positive. Any
@@ -158,7 +179,7 @@ ignore_errors = True
 # it doesn't work in OpenStack-CI yet. Once that's fixed, we can
 # drop the install_command.
 install_command =
-    pip install -U --force-reinstall {opts} {packages}
+    {[testenv:func_base]install_command}
 deps =
     {[testenv:ansible]deps}
 setenv =
@@ -166,13 +187,10 @@ setenv =
 commands =
     {[testenv:ansible]commands}
     ansible-playbook -i {toxinidir}/tests/inventory \
-                     -e "rolename={toxinidir}" \
                      -e "install_test_packages=True" \
+                     -e @{toxinidir}/tests/test-vars.yml \
                      {toxinidir}/tests/test.yml -vvvv
-    bash -c 'mkdir -p {toxinidir}/logs'
-    bash -c 'rsync --archive --verbose --ignore-errors /var/log/ /openstack/log/ {toxinidir}/logs/ || true'
-    bash -c 'find "{toxinidir}/logs/" -type f | sed "p;s|$|.txt|" | xargs -n2 mv'
-    bash -c 'command gzip --best --recursive "{toxinidir}/logs/"'
+    {[testenv:func_logs]commands}
 
 
 [testenv:linters]