diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5e862a95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["pbr>=6.0.0", "setuptools>=64.0.0"]
+build-backend = "pbr.build"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b869ebcc..388720d3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # of appearance. Changing the order has an impact on the overall integration
 # process, which may cause wedges in the gate later.
 
-pbr!=2.1.0,>=2.0.0 # Apache-2.0
+pbr>=6.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 Flask>=1.0.2 # BSD
 requests>=2.14.2 # Apache-2.0
 tenacity>=6.2.0 # Apache-2.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cd35c3c3..b997e51a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@
 import setuptools
 
 setuptools.setup(
-    setup_requires=['pbr>=2.0.0'],
+    setup_requires=['pbr>=6.0.0'],
     pbr=True)