diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 3c7a4bac..a96bebb8 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ tempest_pip_packages:
   - fixtures
   - junitxml
   - nose
+  - oslo.concurrency
   - oslo.serialization
+  - pyOpenSSL
   - python-ceilometerclient
   - python-cinderclient
   - python-glanceclient
@@ -126,3 +128,5 @@ tempest_enable_instance_password: True
 
 ## Tunable overrides
 tempest_tempest_conf_overrides: {}
+
+tempest_log_dir: "/var/log/tempest"
diff --git a/templates/openstack_tempest_gate.sh.j2 b/templates/openstack_tempest_gate.sh.j2
index ab84a724..cf420f25 100644
--- a/templates/openstack_tempest_gate.sh.j2
+++ b/templates/openstack_tempest_gate.sh.j2
@@ -194,9 +194,9 @@ result=$?
 # Create junit xml report from test results
 testr last --subunit | subunit2junitxml > tempest_results.xml
 cp tempest_results.xml /tmp
-if [ -d "/var/log/utility" ];then
-  # Copy the log to the utility logging directory
-  cp tempest_results.xml /var/log/utility/tempest_results_$(date +%Y%d%m-%H%M%S).xml
+if [ -d "{{ tempest_log_dir }}" ];then
+  # Copy the log to the tempest_log_dir logging directory
+  cp tempest_results.xml {{ tempest_log_dir }}/tempest_results_$(date +%Y%d%m-%H%M%S).xml
 fi
 popd
 
diff --git a/templates/tempest.conf.j2 b/templates/tempest.conf.j2
index 80fb59c2..fa105f7d 100644
--- a/templates/tempest.conf.j2
+++ b/templates/tempest.conf.j2
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 debug = {{ debug }}
 verbose = {{ verbose }}
 fatal_deprecations = {{ tempest_fatal_deprecations }}
-log_file = /var/log/utility/tempest.log
+log_file = {{ tempest_log_dir}}/tempest.log
 use_stderr = false