diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ef160a3a2..1bd1a23fe 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@ Babel>=1.3
 
 # for the routing notifier
 PyYAML>=3.1.0
+
+# rabbit driver is the default
+kombu>=2.4.8
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 6cc413005..92f41bf37 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@ testscenarios>=0.4
 testtools>=0.9.34
 oslotest
 
-# for test_rabbit
-kombu>=2.4.8
-
 # when we can require tox>= 1.4, this can go into tox.ini:
 #  [testenv:cover]
 #  deps = {[testenv]deps} coverage