diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6173045bd..2231e5c8e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.i18n>=1.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.service>=0.12.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=2.8.0 # Apache-2.0
+requests>=2.8.1
 retrying!=1.3.0,>=1.2.3 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0