diff --git a/bindep.txt b/bindep.txt
index ab85caa3e9..9d0711133e 100644
--- a/bindep.txt
+++ b/bindep.txt
@@ -2,22 +2,39 @@
 # before the execution of any tests.
 #
 # See the following for details:
-#  - http://docs.openstack.org/infra/bindep/
-#  - https://git.openstack.org/openstack-infra/bindep
+#  - https://docs.openstack.org/infra/bindep/
+#  - https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/bindep
 #
 # Even if the role does not make use of this facility, it
 # is better to have this file empty, otherwise OpenStack-CI
 # will fall back to installing its default packages which
 # will potentially be detrimental to the tests executed.
 
-# Required for compressing collected log files in CI
-gzip
+# The gcc compiler
+gcc
 
-# Requirements for Paramiko 2.0
+# Base requirements for Ubuntu
+git-core          [platform:dpkg]
 libssl-dev        [platform:dpkg]
 libffi-dev        [platform:dpkg]
+python2.7         [platform:dpkg]
+python-apt        [platform:dpkg]
+python-dev        [platform:dpkg]
+python3           [platform:dpkg]
+python3-apt       [platform:dpkg]
+python3-dev       [platform:dpkg]
+
+# Base requirements for RPM distros
+gcc-c++           [platform:rpm]
+git               [platform:rpm]
 libffi-devel      [platform:rpm]
 openssl-devel     [platform:rpm]
+python-devel      [platform:rpm]
+python2-dnf       [platform:fedora]
 
-# For selinux
-libselinux-python [platform:rpm]
+# For SELinux
+libselinux-python [platform:redhat]
+libsemanage-python [platform:redhat]
+
+# Required for compressing collected log files in CI
+gzip
diff --git a/run_tests.sh b/run_tests.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..4b72d3fac3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run_tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# 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:
+# This file is maintained in the openstack-ansible-tests repository.
+# https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-ansible-tests/tree/run_tests.sh
+# If you need to modify this file, update the one in the openstack-ansible-tests
+# repository and then update this file as well. The purpose of this file is to
+# prepare the host and then execute all the tox tests.
+#
+
+## Shell Opts ----------------------------------------------------------------
+set -xeu
+
+## Vars ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+export WORKING_DIR=${WORKING_DIR:-$(pwd)}
+
+## Main ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+source /etc/os-release || source /usr/lib/os-release
+
+install_pkg_deps() {
+    pkg_deps="git"
+
+    # Prefer dnf over yum for CentOS.
+    which dnf &>/dev/null && RHT_PKG_MGR='dnf' || RHT_PKG_MGR='yum'
+
+    case ${ID,,} in
+        *suse*) pkg_mgr_cmd="zypper -n in" ;;
+        centos|rhel|fedora) pkg_mgr_cmd="${RHT_PKG_MGR} install -y" ;;
+        ubuntu|debian) pkg_mgr_cmd="apt-get install -y" ;;
+        *) echo "unsupported distribution: ${ID,,}"; exit 1 ;;
+    esac
+
+    eval sudo $pkg_mgr_cmd $pkg_deps
+}
+
+# Install the host distro package dependencies
+install_pkg_deps
+
+# Clone the tests repo for access to the common test script
+source tests/tests-repo-clone.sh
+
+# Execute the common test script
+source tests/common/run_tests_common.sh
+