diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/no-osc-requirement-411f25fd10f18caa.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/no-osc-requirement-411f25fd10f18caa.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a28a9ad3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/no-osc-requirement-411f25fd10f18caa.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+upgrade:
+  - |
+    ``python-ironicclient`` package no longer has
+    the ``python-openstackclient`` package (OSC) as a requirement.
+
+    Users installing only the ``python-ironicclient`` package will not
+    automatically get access to ``openstack baremetal ...`` OSC commands.
+    To have them available, the ``python-openstackclient`` package must
+    be installed separately, or, when installing ``python-ironicclient``
+    via ``pip``, the new ``cli`` extra can be used to also install OSC:
+
+    .. code-block:: shell
+
+       pip install python-ironicclient[cli]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 58a70b723..7f6e1ea9b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ oslo.i18n>=3.15.3 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization!=2.19.1,>=2.18.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.28.0 # Apache-2.0
 PrettyTable<0.8,>=0.7.1 # BSD
-python-openstackclient>=3.12.0 # Apache-2.0
 PyYAML>=3.10 # MIT
 requests>=2.14.2 # Apache-2.0
 six>=1.9.0 # MIT
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 940a55577..92c053081 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -111,3 +111,7 @@ warning-is-error = 1
 
 [wheel]
 universal = 1
+
+[extras]
+cli =
+    python-openstackclient>=3.12.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 843d2c17e..0fbdc5e32 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ testtools>=1.4.0 # MIT
 tempest>=16.1.0 # Apache-2.0
 os-testr>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 ddt>=1.0.1 # MIT
+python-openstackclient>=3.12.0 # Apache-2.0